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Seott Clark, head coach of SRu' 8.

men’s basketball team, belleves

- College Prospects perpetates a myth
that America {é the promised land for

. athlecle Canadlan students,

“What they cell: kids is that this ts
thelr big chance to compete in the
States, and the U.S.is so great,” says

Clark. “We (SFU)-compete in the U.S...

Scholars

in NAIA and. NCAA Div, IL level, We :

hold our own,” (Last season the men’s

‘basketball team finished second in the.
, Pacific Northwest Athletic Conference

and 33rd overall:in the U.S, out of »

216-schools.) i
:- “We have better educational stan: |
dards than U.S, schools,.We had one“

“Ess 10 years ago who ouldn’t make —

average at SFU. He went to.

Nevada’ University atid made the:

. Dean's list, got_an A average.” -
Clark and his assistants do their ”

‘own recruiting and take little notice of ©

id is good enough | would have °

heard of him anyway,” says Clark,,
*. Marilyn Payne, ¢ Viet executive of

wy B.C: High School Sports, says the

“,, organization does not endorse College

*” Prospects, but doesn’t stop. it from,
advertising in‘ the: BCHSS's s\ quarterly

: magazine B.C. School Sports Report or
exhibiting at the organization’ $ annual
» general ‘meeting. . 2 ak

~ 4]ts'a service and we are not going
“to become a barrier,” she says. “The

“ ~ magazine goes to coaches and.we
place a disclaimer in-the ads.”

David Smith is used to sus icion,
After four years running a College
_ Prospects franchise there are stile :
. schools in Vancouver, whose coaches
“refuse to talk to him. However, Smith
Says that the service is not for every-
one and he is as selective of his clients
as his clients are of their schools.
"College Proapecs ranks schools _

| Eee College Prospects send, “If'a

pamela

according to how tough scholarship © he thinks a prosp ct is worth taking a.

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~ prospects are, There are flve eater. closer look at, He's Inundated with
gories: Ivy League, very difficult, ‘Information about promi high,

moderate, minimally competitive, and school kids from:all over North ~

“none competitive, It doesn't mail pro ‘America and overseas,

files {nv the last two categorles whieh oe “Pina little leery of profile pack!
Include “party schools” with low grad-” ‘ages-when we pet them.” says Pas
tiation rates and degrees worth little in Johnson, “T cat see it from the pare”
Canadas “e ents! viewsthat there are so many kids |
Grades remain the prailty, accord“. out there, every little bit helps = but:
ing to Smith, “Without grades, you’ re, 1 We get so much sent and every type of!
golng nowhere, no matter how good. request, letters, videos, |:
you are athletically, Sometimes boys... “The main guy should be: the high’
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ave a harder time accepting that, school coach. himself, That's who We

whichis why. we prefer to sign them “tend to go by vs
young, In Grades 9 or 10,50 they, have... Ben Howland, head basketball

va chance to Improve." .. . “coach at Northern’ Arizona agrees, -

Smith says interviews with students “MBIT Disbrow’s (long-time Richmond
usually take about two hours, ideally... Colts boys? basketball coach) recom
after an initial consultation with the - mendation means more to me than:

~ student’s coach, He makes no guaran.» any package, We get.so. much sent t0,.
tees of getting a scholarship but claims us it’s hard if not impossible to follow

a 90% success rate, The 10% that don’t t. up every student, especially. when kids
succeed see no. money back. . “3, are-being pushed. to. be Division I

“In the end it boils down to the ~ players and they’re not, I don’t talk to
student,” says Smith. “It’s nor about . . “companies much think they’re

“inom and dad, it’s about whether this. scam.”

is right for the student and they have; | David Smith is undeterred. For an:

to decide whether they. want to leave. °-., incentive to’ continue’ building:

home.to do this.” -- a "part time business he ‘need only look

The franchise is'still in its infancy, .. at his College Prospects’ counterpart in’.
Last year four clients gained full schol: '-, Denver, Pete Cutler, who, ‘signs about’
arships and another 11, partial scholar: ' 300 students ajyear.

“ships; eight for’ football; ‘two for soc: .” ©: Joel Nelson meanwhile is ‘hedging
: cer, two for lacrosse; and one each for: his bets, hoping to see which school,

tee

fs , volleyball and basketball, Smith "will make ‘him the best offer:and meet
as students signed as young as Grade: a the criteria he‘expects before an Aug."
‘1 signing deadline.

” For college coaches who must har-* - .“There’s a risk involved,” ” he sa

_ ness new, talent cach year, recruiting” “You can only wait s

can be imprecise and torturous, A ©»; »” game really.”:

_. winning team, in whatever sport is... ""_, "Neville Judd isa Vancouver Courier’

‘important to the school’s prestige ‘and editor. =:

* jn attracting future ‘prospects. There
_ are only so many winners and turnover

in coaching staff can be high, I

Trent Johnson, assistant men’s bas- ‘increasing, ‘presence of corporate sponsor:
ketball coach'at Stanford University i in ah of everything from sport faciltitics :
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