We spent six figures on youth basketball.
It came back as a D1 scholarship.
This is exactly how.
Not luck. Not a 6'9" growth spurt. A grade-by-grade plan for the player and a defined job for the parent. I wrote down the entire system so you never have to guess season to season again.
- ✓ The full T.R.U.S.T. System, five chapters
- ✓ The four-phase roadmap, 3rd grade through 12th
- ✓ The real math: what we spent, what came back
- ✓ Templates: outreach emails, club scorecard, film checklist
- ✓ Instant download, keep it forever
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You're making a six-figure investment.
Nobody handed you a plan.
Club fees. Private training. Travel. Hotels. Camps. Gear. Over 6 to 10 years, basketball families spend $50,000 to $150,000. And almost every one of them is making the decisions season by season: which club this spring, which trainer this summer, which tournament this weekend.
There are two problems hiding inside that, and they feed each other.
Your player has no development sequence. Skills get stacked in the wrong order. Money goes to exposure before the player is worth exposing. Whole years get spent chasing this weekend's trophy instead of the four-phase arc that actually produces a college player.
And you have no job description. Nobody has ever told you what your role in this actually is. So parents default to one of three modes:
Over-instructs from the bleachers, re-teaches in the car, and slowly undermines every coach the player has.
All emotion, no strategy. Rides every win and loss, and the player learns to perform for the parent's mood.
Writes the checks and hopes. Outsources the entire journey and never checks what the money is producing.
All three feel like love. None of them is the job.
None of this is your fault.
The youth basketball industry runs on parents who don't have a plan. Every club, every showcase, every "elite" camp gets paid whether your player develops or not. Confusion is the business model. The parent who plans is the customer they never wanted.
Here's the transformation this blueprint exists to make: from anxious spender guessing season to season, to the CEO of your child's development. A CEO doesn't do the players' jobs or the coaches' jobs. A CEO sets the target, sequences the phases, hires the right people, and holds every dollar accountable to the plan.
You already run things at work. This hands you the operating manual for the one investment that matters most.
I built this plan the expensive way, so you don't have to.
I'm Coach Lee Green. I've coached boys and girls in DFW for 21 years and evaluated over 1,260 players since 2005. But this blueprint didn't come from the clipboard. It came from the checkbook.
I coached my own son from his first dribble to a Division 1 scholarship at a Power 5 program. I know exactly what we spent over those years, because I itemized it: roughly $130,000. And I know what came back, because a D1 scholarship, the development behind it, and what it set up next is a verified return north of $500,000. The full math is a chapter in the blueprint, one honest table, every line item.
Now I'm walking the same road a second time with my daughter, a point guard competing on the Nike EYBL circuit. Same system, second player, and I'm doing half of it differently, because the first trip taught me what was worth every dollar and what was expensive noise.
That's what you're buying. Not theory. The map from someone who paid for the territory twice.
Inside: The T.R.U.S.T. System
Five chapters. One letter each. Read it tonight, use it at the next practice.
Define what the investment is for before the next check. Scholarship, varsity, or life skills, the plan changes completely based on the target.
The four development phases from 3rd grade to 12th: what matters in each one, and what's a total waste of money in each one.
The parent's actual job description: Provider, Protector, Planner. And the three failure modes, Coach, Fan, Spender, with the way out of each.
Evaluation criteria for clubs, trainers, and schools. The questions to ask, the red flags to walk away from, and how to know when to leave.
Film, coach outreach, the recruiting timeline, and NIL basics. The Exposure Engine, deployed only when the player is ready for it.
Skill before scheme
Sequence the tools
Earn the role
Now you market
- → College coach outreach emails, the exact ones we used
- → Club and trainer evaluation scorecard
- → Season-planning one-pager
- → Highlight film checklist
- → Grade-by-grade decision timeline
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The blueprint was built for you if...
Your player is anywhere from 3rd grade to 12th, the phases meet you wherever you are
You're already spending real money on basketball and you can't say what it's supposed to produce
You've ever left a gym wondering "am I doing this right?" and had nobody to ask
You run things competently at work but guess at the gym
You'd rather have a plan and a lane than another weekend trophy
"A man's heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps."
Proverbs 16:9 · The planning is still your jobWho's behind the blueprint
21 years coaching boys and girls across DFW. 1,260+ player evaluations since 2005. Founder of Lee Green Basketball Academy, where players have started varsity, made varsity as freshmen, and signed D1.
Father of a Division 1 player at a Power 5 program and a point guard competing on the Nike EYBL circuit. Every chapter in this blueprint was lived, itemized, and paid for before it was written.
Still on the fence? Read this.
Is this a promise my kid gets a scholarship?
No, and be suspicious of anyone who promises one. The $500K+ return is my family's verified, itemized result, not a projection of yours. What the blueprint promises is the plan and the role clarity, the two things every scholarship family had and almost no one else does.
My player is young. Is it too early for this?
Early is exactly when the plan is worth the most. The Foundation phase (3rd–6th) is where the most money gets wasted, and where the cheapest, highest-return decisions live.
My player is already in high school. Too late?
No. You enter the roadmap at the Proving or Exposure phase, and the Translate chapter, film, outreach, recruiting timeline, becomes the most valuable thing in the whole document for your family.
Is this only for kids chasing D1?
No. The first chapter makes you define the target, and a targeted varsity or life-skills investment is a completely legitimate plan. What's not legitimate is spending six figures with no target at all.
How is it delivered?
Instantly. Checkout takes a minute, and the PDF and templates arrive in your email. You can be reading it tonight.
What if it's not for me?
Email us within 30 days. If the blueprint doesn't change how you plan your player's next season, we'll refund the $47. The plan works or you don't pay for it.
The only thing between you
and the plan is $47.
Less than one tournament weekend's gas money. You will spend more than this on concessions this season. The difference is this one comes with a return policy, and a plan.
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