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Message: [QUOTE="Zinethar, post: 3965306, member: 8436"] When I was recruiting college athletes and meeting with parents time committment and the like always came up. Usually something like "Jonny (or Jill) is giving up precious study time to go to practice for those 2 hours." My response was "Paractice is not taking away his/her study time. It is taking away the time they would spend walking uptown to hang out." I would then remind them that coaches are the mom or dad when the kids are away from home. If we didn't do our job making sure they got the time and help they needed to succeed in the classroom then those athletes would be removed from the team where they have value to our program. We had mandatory Study Halls for those who were not succeeding in a class. We paired upperclassmen with younger students that were taking similar courses. We did not recruit kids we didn't think could perform also in the classroom. [/QUOTE]