A Challenge to the NCAA?

[LongTimeFan]

I thought this might interest some posters. They want to be an alternative for All Americans and possible first round draft choices.

The team would compete with the EuroLeague teams and offering some serious money.

http://courtcred.com/content/entry/las_vegas_team_wants_to_be_ncaa_alternative_for_mcdonalds_all_americans/

[tornado]

Very interesting and inevitable...it is ultimate AAU - power brokers luring the kids and paying them, although there they will have no need to hide the payments...

they will also be able to lure some talent right off college rosters - who will not be draft caliber...

[Da Coach]

It will only hurt the top few programs like Kentucky and Kansas

[LongTimeFan]

I think there would be a trickle-down effect as the BCS teams then recruit players that would have gone to the smaller programs. Of course, there would probably not be a lot of kids participating if there is only one team in this country. However, the idea could spread.

[tornado]

a lot of very serious red flags, anonymity, and links to suspicious stuff are causing some to connect the dots...

http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basketball/story/2015-05-12/las-vegas-dealers-basketball-one-and-done-cerruti-brown-mcdonalds-all-americans

this whole "plan" to start up a team and pay McDonald's All Americans...
might just be a phony ploy to land a couple sponsors, maybe shoe companies - then take the money & run as has been known to happen in similar ventures elsewhere ***...

remember - if kids even talk to this guy, they have blown their amateur status and cannot return to college...so there's a lot of risk...
This column shows
"many unanswered questions"
and ... "Will it work and it won't be a 'fly-by-night' operation?"

...so far a lot of what this Sporting News writer found is very suspicious at best and downright fraudulent & laughable most likely...


*** remember the failed prep school Jordan Swopshire went to, Sports Quest?

http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2012/02/09/state-sues-sportsquest-over-marketing/

http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2011/08/17/sportsquest-sued-by-vegas-basketball-academy/

http://bubravesblogger.blogspot.com/2013/03/some-info-that-was-not-reported-on.html

[tornado]

Plans are moving ahead...for a professional option for TOP high schoolers - so they do not have to spend a year in college before being eligible for the NBA Draft
This would pay them thoretically as much as $700K, maybe have TV possibillities, and have the potential to boost stock of players & make them household names....kinda what the USFL did for the likes of Jim Kelly, Doug Flutie, Herschel Walker, & Steve Young
the team now has a name, a location, even close to a commissioner/coach...and a few other things..

https://twitter.com/AdamZagoria/status/604285445544001536

http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basketball/story/2015-05-11/las-vegas-dealers-basketball-skip-college-mcdonalds-all-americans

http://nypost.com/2015/05/11/theres-now-a-700k-las-vegas-alternative-for-hs-hoops-stars/

[tornado]

More on Las Vegas league that is aiming to sign top college & high school talent and hopes to get kids who will have NBA talent and play a year 'til they get drafted...
They will have a draft next month

AmeriLeague

http://www.amerileague.com/

[Da Coach]

More on Las Vegas league that is aiming to sign top college & high school talent and hopes to get kids who will have NBA talent and play a year 'til they get drafted...
They will have a draft next month

AmeriLeague
http://www.amerileague.com/

Wow. After getting funding from a variety of investors, and just before the dispersal draft scheduled for today (10/22/15) for the 6 teams to draft players, what seemed like a good idea, providing a league for former NBA Players and players in the first year out of high school, before they can be drafted by the NBA, has collapsed in the last 24 hours.

First- ESPN Outside the Lines posted a report Wednesday (10/21/15) that the founder of the AmeriLeague, who had previously identified himself as Cerruti Brown, was in reality a professional con-man who has numerous past criminal convictions for fraud named Glendon Alexander.
This is one of the most bizarre stories in modern sports history-

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/13944043/amerileague-founder-tells-operations-manager-persona-fake-lines

Now the fallout begins- dozens of potential players were on their way to las Vegas for the AmeriLeague's initial draft scheduled for today, which has been "postponed". Already lawsuits are being filed or being prepared for filing. Several of the top employees of the league have already quit, while a few others scramble to try to save the league.

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/13945791/fallout-begins-amerileague-pro-basketball-league-founder-true-identity-revealed

[tornado]

a lot of very serious red flags, anonymity, and links to suspicious stuff ...

this whole "plan"...might just be a phony ploy to land a couple sponsors, maybe shoe companies - then take the money & run... very suspicious at best and downright fraudulent & laughable most likely.......

you mean the whole thing might just have been a scam & a fraud to pocket a bunch of money & run??
Wow - bet nobody saw that coming...