Findlay Prep

Findlay Prep won the national high school basketball championship despite not being a high school.

As Sports Illustrated reports, Findlay Prep is a basketball program that "operates completely outside the traditional high school system."

It works like this:
  • They find the best teenage basketball players.
  • They give them a house in Las Vegas.
  • They pay for their meals.
  • They fly the players around the country to kick the crap out of every other team in the country.1
  • The operation is bankrolled by a UNLV booster.2
  • Completely unrelated to the item above, the players often decide to enroll at UNLV after leaving Findley Prep.
If they like, the players may advance to Div. I college basketball programs, where they can (illegally) earn $200,000 per year.3

Or they can go to Europe and earn the type of money they can pay taxes on.


1The team finished 33-0 this season.
2 This is legal, according to the NCAA. Somehow.
3According to a New York Times conversation with ESPN analyst Fran Fraschilla.

Comments

lal said…
they do get to attend the henderson international school (as their travel schedule permits)
April 29, 2009
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