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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How about the i270 league - is that still considered strong?  Feed into the MOCO high schools?[/quote]

i270 depends on the regions.

In the hypercompetitive/expensive regions, there are a good amount of aau players on the teams.  For some of the players, it's just one of the many teams they are on during the season.  We heard some families who had kids come from good teams in other leagues or travel teams complain about lack of playing time on their i270 team.

Likewise some other teams looked like they carried almost 20 players and basically took everyone from tryouts.  But heard complaints from some families how only a select few actually get to play during games and they weren't happy that their kids hardly saw any playing time.

There are some areas which seem to be kind of low key, like slightly above rec level.  But they tend to get runover by the other teams.  I think one of the teams ended up not showing up to the playoff games but it was also either bad weather that day or a rescheduled day due to weather.

I have determined that a lot of programs purposely target richer areas because people in those areas are more likely to pay the large amount of money they charge.  But personally think a lot of those families would've saved money and got more if they put their kids in rec.  Some of the players could barely dribble or shoot a ball.  The issue with rec, is that you never know what you're going to get and have to hope for a good parent coach.  Although some of those expensive programs look for parent coaches too, so am not sure of the benefit of their program.  And maybe there is a benefit of playing with/against higher skilled players and teams, with a lot of the limiting rules in rec removed.  ie it's not guaranteed playing time for everyone, can full court press the entire game, no mercy rule, etc

I've heard from other people that like rec, the experience can vary within a program depending on coach and players on a team.  So while I was unhappy with our experience with some of those programs.  Know families that are happy with a team in another group and coach in the same program.[/quote]

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