Los Angeles, CA
August 8th 2008
Years ago during the Aflac Week, we noticed that hundreds of scouts and college recruiters would attend some of the morning Aflac workouts. The Aflac players would do things in the afternoon, visit the local Children’s Hospital and other activities. This left scouts and recruiters with nothing to do in the afternoons.
We decided to hold a showcase event on one of the afternoons, followed by a game between those high level participants the next afternoon. It was well received by most of the scouts and recruiters.
Recruiting has changed over the past few years. Now more and more top players are verbally committing to college programs well before there senior and even junior years. So we decided to turn the PG Aflac Showcase into an event featuring some of the top underclassmen in the nation. Once again it was very well received.
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