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West Coast club team power Pump N Run has been the summer training ground for many notable college basketball players, including North Carolina's Larry Drew II, who could start at point guard next season, and former Duke player Mike Dunleavy Jr. That is not the team's only connection to college programs recruiting its best players. The club is a subsidiary of Double Pump Inc., which has sold a recruiting subscription service to many of those same college institutions for about 23 years. North Carolina was among the programs that paid $600 for Double Pump's service in the 2007-08 fiscal year, and Double Pump co-founder Dana Pump said Duke also is among the service's many longtime subscribers. The idea that Double Pump and other club teams are selling information to colleges that might be recruiting the clubs' talent has brought these scouting services under the NCAA's scrutiny. Although these payments do not violate NCAA rules, there is concern among college coaches and administrators that some club coaches could be treating a subscription payment as the price of admission to coaches who want to recruit their players.

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May 31, 2009  10:25 AM ET

Well if the NCAA is involved the figure its at least a decade before anything happens.

This seems a little shady thought. If they are shuffling players to the colleges that pay that is a problem. But hey, HS coaches do this all the time for schools they like. They just don't get paid.

May 31, 2009  10:26 AM ET

Pump N Run, a subsidiary of Double Pump Inc. What's in a name?

"Hello maam, my name is Richard Pump of Double Pump Inc. I'd like to talk to you about your son being a part of our Pump N Run program."

May 31, 2009  10:57 AM ET
QUOTE(#2):

Pump N Run, a subsidiary of Double Pump Inc. What's in a name?"Hello maam, my name is Richard Pump of Double Pump Inc. I'd like to talk to you about your son being a part of our Pump N Run program."

Former porn star. Didn't change his name with profession.

May 31, 2009  11:05 AM ET

"North Carolina was among the programs that paid $600 for Double Pump's services"

That's $300 per pump.

May 31, 2009  11:10 AM ET

Is there anyone out there that is naive enough to still think
the NCAA ISN'T a business ??
I mean why continue the farce ?
- just allow these kids to earn real $$$ already-
Most of them don't make it- but not allowig them to earn $$
during the tiny window between HS & college when their services
are actually in demand .....simply is WRONG

May 31, 2009  06:27 PM ET

hahahahaha and people are getting on Calipari's case when this "shady" works is happening here.

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June 1, 2009  09:52 AM ET

Pump...that's an interesting name. I wonder what origin that's from...

I'm guessing...plumber. Or someone from the Reebok family.

June 1, 2009  09:57 AM ET
QUOTE(#1):

But hey, HS coaches do this all the time for schools they like. They just don't get paid.

Funny, I seem to recall that the crux of Alabama's mega-probation was because a booster paid a high school coach a lot of dough. Someone correct me if I'm wrong on this, though.

June 1, 2009  01:18 PM ET

Doesn't the AAU program do this to some extent? Nike deals for the entire team, free shoes, coaches getting paid to tour the country with their club team....

June 1, 2009  03:02 PM ET

Gee, it's really amazing how UNC and Duke able to churn out top recruits year after year. You would think recruits would only go to a school with a happy-go-lucky-coach who hangs out with young hot coeds and as a bonus, the school houses you in state-of-the-art condo. Now we find out this so-called scouting service funnels the recruits. Does the "C" in NCAA stand for Corrupt?

June 1, 2009  04:57 PM ET
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hahahahaha and people are getting on Calipari's case when this "shady" works is happening here.

You can't be serious. This is nothing compared to what's gone on under Cal's watchful eye at UMass and Memphis. $600 isn't going to buy a recruit. It's a recruiting subscription. If you want to say it's an "admission fee", fine but that's on the service, not the coaches. Either way, that's chump change compared to 28k Camby got (along with prostitutes). Not to mention the academic fraud of Mr. Rose. If you want to talk about shady, start with coaches who sign under qualified family members and "associates" in exchange for a recruit's services. Or, the coaches who pay their AAU coaches thousands, not hundreds, THOUSANDS of dollars to "help out" at their basketball camps. Roy Williams and K are not among the coaches who practice that sort of thing. Either way, Kentucky is Probation U and you proved it once more by signing the dirtiest coach in college basketball.

June 1, 2009  06:16 PM ET
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$600 isn't going to buy a recruit.

that depends...

1 Star Recruit = $600
3 Star Recruit = $4,000
5 Star Recruit = Serious Inquiries Only

June 2, 2009  03:00 PM ET

And???

 
June 2, 2009  08:26 PM ET

Natorious - I agree with your comments on closing the recruiting gaps of AAU coaches and these so called "handlers"; however, you really need to get your facts straight on the Coach Cal past. It's a shame that you lost your valid point by diminishing your argument with sarcastic opinions.

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