What is the general opinion on STEPS? Their teams seem good but not great at HS level. Their coaching staff has to be the best and its not even close, Kovachik (delbarton, NJ HOF), Giarusso (MKA, SHP), Webster ( Pingry NJ HOF), Davidson (Sumit, NJ HOF).. and more but you get the point. Do they just not play the cut throat game in HS and cut and poach kids to get better. IS that what you have to do to be elite?
Steps is a solid single A type of program (B in LI terms). Their girls program is elite. They don’t attract the best players because they don’t compete in the best tournaments and don’t give the kids the best exposure. They work around the “futures” programs that some towns like summit still have so that makes them more attractive to those towns’ players. That said, very few elite players from towns like summit play for steps these days. Years ago before all the big clubs like BBL were around, steps was a much more competitive program.
