Says a lot about NCAA coaches when they state to parents that they don't like or respect Maddox, yet on the next breath are on the phone with him to buy more middle schoolers from the herd. It is almost like hearing Dom Starsia say he's adverse to evaluating 9th graders and then committing one the next...oh, never mind.

Sounds like club coaches and college coaches have found a sanctuary at the bottom of the muddy pond.

Negative recruiting between clubs is standard operating procedure. Our son left Crabs and it came back to us directly that the owner and some Crabs parents went well out of their way to trash and disparage our son. At least some college coaches had the gonads to tell us that. It didn't damage our son. When coaches see that a kid has top grades in honors courses and hear all about how good of a kid the high school coach who has him for 100 days and not just a few hit-and-run summer club events they can figure out sour grapes. If Cabell Maddox wants to trash a kid all day long let him. Sure, there's a guy who has a great idea about th character of a kid who went to a few recruiting tournaments.