The Best College Venues for NBA teams to Scout Games (DraftExpress)

[rolandftw]

http://www.draftexpress.com/article/The-Best-College-Venues-for-NBA-Teams-to-Scout-Games-4383

Tied for first in our survey of scouts and executives were Florida, Florida State, UConn, Kentucky and Duke. All received a good amount of praise from across the NBA for their treatment of scouts and executives throughout the years.

The next most frequently mentioned schools were Kansas (“they put you in the stands, but always low and in a front row, so you never have an obstructed view. They give you access to the press room. They could sell those seats for a lot of money but they take care of us.”), Michigan (“always a great seat”) and Arizona (“they charge $128 for a ticket, which is more than twice what most schools do, but they put you in a great seat, so none of us have a problem with that. We might have an issue with our budget if we had to pay $128 every time we watched a game, though.”)

Also receiving numerous “votes” and plenty of enthusiastic responses were: San Diego State, Colorado, Michigan State, Clemson, Cal-Berkley.

Tied for the most votes in the “least accommodating college program” were UCLA and Oklahoma State. UCLA placed a large amount of NBA executives, including General Managers, in the upper deck for their home game against Arizona last weekend, which generated the large amount of negative responses which prompted this article. This has been an ongoing theme with the storied college program for years apparently, to the point that many NBA scouts mentioned they avoid attending their home games altogether.

“There's no point in going to UCLA, because they've made it quite clear that we're not welcome there, even before Steve Alford got there” one executive complained. “As much as we all love LA, and need to see the prospects on their roster in their home environment, it's not worth the time, money and aggravation of being seated in the upper deck where you simply can't see anything that's going on on the floor. You're better off watching the game on TV.”

Not sure how much any of this stuff matters, but it is an interesting article detailing how NBA people enjoyed the atmosphere at different College arenas. Even though CU only gets a brief mention in the article, it's good to see them mentioned in the same category as Michigan State for sure. And of course love the bad press for UCLA

 

[Buffs@5345']

http://www.draftexpress.com/article/The-Best-College-Venues-for-NBA-Teams-to-Scout-Games-4383







Not sure how much any of this stuff matters, but it is an interesting article detailing how NBA people enjoyed the atmosphere at different College arenas. Even though CU only gets a brief mention in the article, it's good to see them mentioned in the same category as Michigan State for sure. And of course love the bad press for UCLA

Brief, who cares? Tad continues to do the right things to build this program. Treat NBA scouts and execs well and they will want to come back to watch your players. Scouts watching players leads to scouts rating players highly. Highly rated players are drafted highly. Future recruits see Buffs in the pros.
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Profit.

#RollTad

 

[Goose]

Yup. This is something Tad's really smart about. Every relationship matters. Every single one. Loved seeing us on the list of teams that do what they can to help.

 

[cubuffs85]

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Not sure how much any of this stuff matters, but it is an interesting article detailing how NBA people enjoyed the atmosphere at different College arenas. Even though CU only gets a brief mention in the article, it's good to see them mentioned in the same category as Michigan State for sure. And of course love the bad press for UCLA

Probably not a major factor, but nonethless, you don't want to make these guys jobs harder. You want them coming campus. You want to hear "20 scouts, 5 executives, and 2 GMs came to see Colorado take on ___ at Coors" on the broadcast. And like CU wants to see it's student succeed so they can list on their brochure how many Fortune 500 CEOs graduated from here, same thing applies to it's sports programs. The more NBA players and quality of them we have, the better it is for recruiting purposes.

 

[cubuffs85]

Yup. This is something Tad's really smart about. Every relationship matters. Every single one. Loved seeing us on the list of teams that do what they can to help.

Yep, you never want to burn your bridges, you never know where one relationship can lead to. Tad seems to be doing a great job building relationships at both the high school and pro levels.

 

[SBG]

UCLA can treat their NBA scouts players bad because it's not like they would pass on a 1st rounder b/c they had ****ty seats in the upper deck. They should cultivate a better environment, but when you in the best recruiting area in the country you don't have to be nice. We need to do everything we do because we'll tend to get less exposure than UCLA on national tv and in the media in general.

It's nice to see us mentioned though. People are talking about us and we aren't that far removed from being the worst top-tier conference BB school.