🏀 Gary Parrish/CBS very selective with his articles about AAU, Penny and the Memphis teams connections, amidst the NCAA cleaning?

[TerryP]

(Thinking about this in relation to the shoe stories.)
(...and a recent graph published by the NCAA showing a lot of kids attention is being drawn from the shoe aspect of basketball.)

Look at the phrasing here:

How Memphis' Penny Hardaway and Mike Miller became the most fascinating duo on the recruiting trail

The former NBA stars are using strong ties to grassroots programs they used to sponsor to aid in recruiting

Grassroots, Another word for AAU. Fascinating?

If I'm a high school football coach and I get a job on a college staff I can't recruit a player I used to coach.
If I'm a college basketball coach I can recruit a player I used to coach in AAU.

Fascinating isn't the word.

How Memphis' Penny Hardaway and Mike Miller became the most fascinating duo on the recruiting trail