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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 4084879, member: 1131"] Maybe [USER=649]@stamfordhusky[/USER] or another expert on NCAA rules can answer some questions. I'm thinking specifically of UConn WBB when I ask these questions, but I'm sure they apply to any high-level program. [LIST=1] [*]What about strength and conditioning coaches? Is Amanda Hudy a "countable coach" at UConn? I'm pretty sure that she doesn't recruit, but when recruits come to visit (officially or otherwise), I will bet that they will meet her and she will describe the conditioning program and expectations. [*]I assume academic tutors are OK, and are not countable coaches? Is there any limit on how many of these there can be? [*]I know some programs have someone whose main job is to review video of previous games and practices and pick out things that the coaches may want to raise with the player, or even to show them to the players themselves. Are these "countable coaches"? [*]I really can't believe that UConn players only spend 20 hours a week on basketball, if that includes not only practices but conditioning sessions, film sessions, and individual talks with the coaches about how to improve their play. For all practical purposes, all of these activities are "required", inasmuch as any player who blew them off would certainly go to the end of the bench, and possibly lose her scholarship. But since most UConn players are aiming for a professional basketball career after college, getting better at basketball is what they really want to do -- just as a science major who aspires to do groundbreaking research in astronomy or whatever will spend ungodly hours in the lab -- and for students who are really serious about that, all those hours are for practical purposes "required" (if they want to have any chance to get into a top graduate program). How does the NCAA distinguish between required and "voluntary" (in name only) basketball-related activities? [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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