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Message: [QUOTE="Sifaka, post: 3936334, member: 8516"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://sports.yahoo.com/adia-barnes-arizona-coach-ncaa-tournament-mom-baby-daughter-031353169.html[/URL] "All the while, Barnes was shouldering mom duties. "We didn't have a nanny," she [URL='https://sports.yahoo.com/head-coach-adia-barnes-her-010508354.html']said[/URL] earlier this week. "We lost our nanny right before this trip. No one knows that. I don't talk about that publicly. It's been hard." Especially hard because the [URL='https://theathletic.com/2461090/2021/03/19/jennings-the-ncaa-had-a-roadmap-for-moms-in-the-bubble-and-it-dropped-the-ball/']NCAA didn't make children a priority[/URL]. [B]Children were allowed into the bubble with their working mothers, but counted against a team's 34-person travel party limit, meaning head coaches with young kids had to choose between a staffer and their baby.[/B] Breastfeeding coaches, like Barnes, didn't really have a choice. And there were [URL='https://theathletic.com/2461090/2021/03/19/jennings-the-ncaa-had-a-roadmap-for-moms-in-the-bubble-and-it-dropped-the-ball/']reportedly[/URL]no childcare stipends, no special accommodations in San Antonio." I'm sure mister Emmert can form a commission to investigate this... [/QUOTE]