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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some organizations will put your kid on a team either with too many kids (DS was put on an AAU team with 14 kids last year, and this was after they cut 60 kids at tryouts).  The competition for playing time was like lord of the flies, which is what they wanted I guess.

Or the will try to field a team when they don't have the numbers -- DS was on another team that published a tournament schedule, had practices and even cut kids and then announced 2 days before the first tournament that they didn't have enough kids and were cancelling the season.  DS's first travel game he showed up and there were 4 kids there from his team.  They played with 4 (then 3 after one kid fouled out) and got beat like 70-21.

Other teams will tell you about fees, but then charge additional fees for uniforms or for coaches' compensation at tournaments (e.g. asking parents to kick in $20 additional per player per day of tournaments).

Also, find out how many seasons the team plays and what fees are for each season.  DS played on an AAU team that divided the AAU season into spring and summer and wanted to charge fees for both.[/quote]

Our rec league has travel teams that you try out for and rec teams that everyone can play on l. What's the difference between a travel team like that and an AAU team? [/quote]

Lots of organizations have travel teams that have tryouts and developmental teams that anyone can sign up for.  Sometimes those are private organizations and --- at least in DC -- others are run through DC rec centers.  Emory Recreation Center, for example, has really strong travel teams and also --- I think -- normal rec teams that any one can play on.

Strictly speaking, "AAU" refers to teams that play in tournaments sanctioned by the Amateur Athletic Union.  Kids and coaches have to have AAU cards and be certified by AAU.  Age requirements are enforced.

People also use AAU to refer to travel youth basketball generally, which includes a broad range of teams and competitions not sanctioned by AAU.

For example, there are select leagues that lots of local  travel teams play in that have nothing to do with AAU.  For most teams, those don't involve much travel.  Then there are teams that play exclusively in large tournaments mostly in places like Atlanta, Las Vegas, Atlantic City etc.  put on by companies like HoopGroup (JamFests) or Adidas (Sliver Gauntlet events).  Finally, there are sponsored grassroots basketball leagues run by the shoe companies (Adidas, Under Armour and Nike) that a limited number of outstanding teams are invited/given money to play in.  People call all of this "AAU", but none of it has anything to do with AAU, and one notable difference is that nobody seems to check ages for the local leagues and for tournaments like Jamfests teams are based on grade, so you have a LOT of kids who reclass to an earlier grade and play down one or two years (this applies at the high school level).  
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