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CONTENTS | BASKETBALL EdiTiON | POSTSEASON 2011 | VOL. XiX, NO. 3

3 POSTSEASON BULLETIN BOARDLawsuit spotlights hiring process … High school handles hazing incident … Minority coaching program … A chat with Cornell’s new coach … Media goes inside indiana University workouts … implementing a work-to-play program

13Q&A TOM VIXThe Head Boys’ Coach at Rushford-Peterson (Minn.) High School discusses putting family first and designing systems to fit his teams’ talents.

16COVERSTORY hIgh MARksMaking academics a top priority means providing tools and opportunities to help players succeed while monitoring their progress.

25 LEADERSHIP QUELLINg ThE CRITICsNowadays, coaches get bombarded with criticism from every angle. in response, they are learning how to absorb, deflect, and stand firm.

31 STRENGTH&CONDITIONING sTRONg As BULLDOgsMake no mistake—Butler didn’t get lucky as the Cinderella team of the 2010 NCAA division i Men’s Basketball Tournament. The Bulldogs’ conditioning program was a key element of their run to the championship.

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Hiring

Lawsuit Raises Questions

For top-level college basket-ball coaches, hiring assistant coaches often needs to happen without hesita-tion. as the season comes to an end, an opening at one school leads to an open-ing at another, and so on. because it’s a critical time for recruiting, there’s not a moment to spare, and jobs are offered and accepted in a heartbeat.

but last May, the rapid-hire culture was called into question in Jimmy Williams v. Tubby Smith and the Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota. a long-time assistant coach, Jimmy Williams was awarded $1.25 million (later reduced to $1 million) after allegedly being offered a position at Minnesota that was subse-quently rescinded.

the story begins in March 2007, as newly hired Minnesota head Men’s coach tubby smith is assembling his slate of assistants. With his son, saul smith, and longtime friend, ron Jirsa, on board, he sought a third assistant with more recruit-ing experience in the Midwest. he seemed to find a good fit in Jimmy Williams, then an assistant coach at oklahoma state Uni-versity and a former assistant at Minneso-ta over 20 years ago.

after the two had discussions during the Final Four/Nabc convention, Williams says smith offered him a job over the tele-phone. Williams accepted and immedi-ately resigned his position at oklahoma state, along with putting his house up for sale. (Williams had just completed the second year of a three-year contract that guaranteed him in excess of $150,000 in annual compensation.)

however, Minnesota athletic Director Joel Maturi disagreed with smith’s deci-sion to bring Williams aboard. Maturi based his decision on Williams’s previous tenure at Minnesota in the 1970 and ’80s, a period when Ncaa violations were uncovered in the program.

“I did not believe it was the right thing to start this new era of Minnesota basketball with one of the most highly respected coaches in america to have someone on the staff with a known list-ing of violations that occurred, let alone occurred while at the University of Min-nesota,” Maturi said in a pre-trial deposi-tion. “and when coach smith and I had that discussion, he agreed.”

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choices need to be vetted by administra-tors.

Donald chance Mark, Jr., a founding member of the Minnesota-based law firm Fafinski Mark & Johnson, who represent-ed Williams in the lawsuit, suggests that coaches discuss this question with their athletic directors before initiating any hir-ing process. and if a coach’s choice needs to be reviewed, that must be communi-cated to the candidate.

“head coaches need to be clear with assistant coaching candidates regarding the extent of their authority,” Mark wrote in Athletic Management. “For example, if any offer by a head coach is subject to final approval by an athletic director, the head coach needs to state this.”

For assistant coaches, there is the issue of whether they should request validation of an offer before accepting a job. “candidates may consider requesting written confirmation of a job offer—if not

Jimmy Williams (right) was awarded $1 million after a jury found Minneso-ta’s Tubby Smith falsely represented he had the authority to hire Williams as an assistant coach in 2007.

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3 Lawsuit spot-lights hiring

4 Handling a hazing incident

6 Minority coach gets a leg up

8 3 questions for Bill Courtney

8 Inside Hoosier workouts

10 A work-to- play program

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Williams, however, was left without a job. he sued smith and the school on the basis of past lost wages and future earn-ings, as well as benefits.

at the trial, smith testified that he never officially offered Williams the posi-tion, and the university claimed that Maturi had the final say on the hire. Wil-liams argued that, at the Ncaa Division I level, head coaches have long been given full authority to hire their staffs and there was no reason for him to question what he felt was a firm job offer from smith.

a jury found that smith falsely repre-sented that he had final authority to hire assistant coaches and that Williams relied on smith’s offer to his detriment. the University appealed in september, but a judge denied the request. another appeal may be forthcoming.

In light of the lawsuit, several ques-tions have arisen. For head coaches, a major question is whether they have full authority to hire their staff, or if their

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a signed contract, at least a memorandum of understanding or even a simple e-mail confirming the offer and setting forth the basic terms,” Mark wrote.

Student-Athlete WelfAre

Indiana HS Confronts Hazing

In the wake of several hIghly publIcIzed IncIdents involving the boys’ team at carmel (Ind.) high school, school administrators have revamped the school’s hazing policies and are looking for more out of their coaches. the new initiatives focus on better supervision and prevention.

“we took this as an opportunity to reflect on everything we’d been doing,” says athletic director Jim Inskeep. “some people in the community felt our high

“Some people in the comm-unity felt our high school wasn’t a safe place to send their children. We took that personally and committed to making changes that would win back their trust.”

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In his first season at Carmel (Ind.) High School, Head Boys’ Coach Scott Heady helped the school work through fallout from a hazing incident.

season, school-centered captains meet-ings. In a series of five classes, team captains go through an anti-hazing cur-riculum that introduces the group to dif-ferent scenarios and challenges them to apply the new rules in brainstorming effective solutions.

“hazing prevention really begins with the student-athletes themselves, which is why we’ve focused on educa-tion,” Inskeep says. “as coaches and administrators, we can’t be everywhere at once, so in addition to all the supervision we’re able to provide, it’s up to student leaders to take charge of their programs. we need to help them identify situations that are wrong and give them the edu-cation they need to address those issues before anyone gets hurt.”

so far, Inskeep feels the changes are working, and he expects the captains

the new procedures begin by defin-ing hazing as “any activity expected of someone joining a student organization that humiliates, degrades, or risks emo-tional and/or physical harm.” they con-tinue with detailed examples, including assaulting, sexually assaulting, or insulting new members of a team, forcing them to wear embarrassing clothes, or requiring them to serve older teammates.

If there are any doubts about what does or doesn’t constitute hazing, the guidelines provide five questions for coaches and students to ask themselves and a chart that outlines the differences between hazing and team-building activi-ties. (for carmel high school’s complete anti-hazing guidelines, see the link at the bottom of this page.)

carmel coaches are now responsible for immediately relaying any allegations of hazing to the principal, who forwards complaints to the district, which launches an investigation. disciplinary action could include warnings, suspension, exclusion from school activities, or expulsion. there is no time limitation for students to report their abuse, and the guidelines explicitly prohibit any intimidation, harassment, or reprisals against those who complain.

to convey the message to student-athletes, Inskeep has replaced the school’s student athletic board, which focused largely on community outreach, with in-

For more on Carmel High School’s anti-hazing guidelines, go to: http://policy.ccs.k12.in.us/policies/619.

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school wasn’t a safe place to send their children. we took that personally and committed to making changes that would win back their trust. so we asked our-selves, ‘how widespread is this problem? are there new policies we need to put into place? what can we do to make sure this doesn’t happen again?’”

the problems surfaced in January 2010, when a freshman alleged he was sexually assaulted by three seniors at the back of a team bus while four coaches sat at the front unaware of what was going on. the scandal grew when police investi-gators said they turned up a series of inci-dents in the carmel locker room dating back to november 2009, which implicated a fourth senior, and added allegations of attempted sexual assault. all the team’s coaches resigned, and new ones were in place by the start of the 2010-11 season.

after consulting with athletic admin-istrators and anti-hazing experts, school administrators assigned coaches to moni-tor both the front and back of buses and maintain a constant supervisory presence in locker rooms. In addition, using resourc-es from the nfhs and ncaa, carmel has created a set of administrative guidelines for preventing and reporting hazing.

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meetings to keep evolving over time. The athletic program has remained under scrutiny, and in hiring the new head coach, Inskeep chose veteran Scott Heady, who was the head coach at a conference rival for the past 13 years and formerly worked as an assistant coach at Carmel.

“I think we’ve come up with a game plan to move this program into the future,” says Inskeep. “Our school was wounded by the situation in 2010, but now I think our students and staff have a much better understanding of what’s expected of them. We know the spotlight is on us, and we’re ready to show that we’re providing a safe environment for our students and student-athletes.”

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JOaquIn WallaCe, Head WOm-en’S COaCH aT nCaa dIvISIOn II San FranCISCO STaTe unIverSITy, hopes to one day become a head coach at the divi-sion I level. So last June, Wallace decided to take a significant step toward his goal and accepted an invitation to attend the

Black Coaches and administrators achiev-ing Coaching excellence (aCe) program.

Since its inception in 2003, aCe has aimed to aid the development of eth-nic minority college basketball coaches. It is designed to help assistant coaches become head coaches and teach nCaa division II and III head coaches what it takes to run a division I program. Through the first seven years, 90 coaches completed the program, with 27 going on to achieve their respective goals.

Wallace, who before getting into coaching ran a welfare-to-work program that placed hundreds of people into jobs and saved hundreds of families, says the four days he spent at the program were a life-changing experience. The program was broken down into seminars on topics such as leadership, communication, cam-

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pus relations, media training, and pro-gram management, along with on-court demonstrations.

Wallace, who is in his fifth year at San Francisco State, previously served as Associate Head Women’s Coach at Con-tra Costa Community College, Head Girls’ Coach at Albany (Calif.) High School, and Head Girls’ j.v. Coach at St. Mary’s High School in Berkeley, Calif. “The program did a great job providing tools that coach-es can use to help advance their careers,” Wallace says. “When you go to some sem-inars, you don’t know what to expect and you think it’ll be a meet and greet-type thing where you attend a couple of ses-sions, maybe blow a few off, and tour the city. That didn’t happen here. From the moment I got there to the time I left, I was completely engaged.”

Wallace absorbed a number of les-sons from the many interactive classes. In the media training session, for example, program leaders posed specific scenarios to the coaches and analyzed their reac-tions. Each coach was critiqued immedi-ately after his or her turn in front of the camera.

“During the on-court portion of the program, they had a coach like Quen-

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tin Hillsman [Head Women’s Coach at Syracuse University] do an on-court dem-onstration on implementing a zone defense,” Wallace says. “Then they’d pull one of the attendees’ names out of a hat, and that person had to get up and show the group how to put together a zone defense. You went on the court and did it at that moment and there were players on hand to participate in the drills.

“Then immediately afterward, all the coaches would provide a critique on your ability to manage the floor, manage play-ers, and make decisions on the court,” he continues. “It was especially helpful for those who had never been in a head coaching position before.”

For Wallace, it was also a great opportunity to network with coaches from across the country and helped him build confidence in his coaching abili-ties. “I was on the court with people who I watch on television—Division I head coaches or assistant coaches—and they really believed I could be a successful Divi-sion I head coach,” Wallace says. “That meant a lot, and it helped me become more relaxed, which now allows me to coach better than ever. It gave me the confidence I never gave myself.”

Wallace started to feel the effects of the program the moment he left, and those feelings continued as he prepared his team for the 2010-11 season. “I never knew how to run a program to the extent I do now,” he says. “My first few years here, I was so over-whelmed with the pressure to win and making sure I kept my job, I never took the time to grasp all of the concepts that go into developing a complete program. ACE gave me the confidence to relax, and I realized I knew more about running a program than I thought. I knew how to run a business, which is similar to a bas-ketball team, but I never made the cor-relation.”

Wallace also entered the season more organized than ever before. “As soon as I completed ACE, the first thing I did was plan my entire season like I would in the business world,” he says. “I put everything on a calendar and laid it out. I also created a mission statement for my

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team, which is FACTS: Family, Accountabil-ity, Character, Teamwork, and Success.”

Overall, Wallace is thankful for the opportunity to participate in the pro-gram and encourages others to do the same. “Everywhere I go, I always tell people, ‘You need to apply for the ACE program,’” he says. “Three or four years ago, if I had an opportunity to take over a Division I program, I wouldn’t have been ready. I may have thought I was, but I wasn’t. Since I left ACE, I’ve been ready to take on that challenge.”

Media Relations

Trading the Press Box for Gym Socks

USUAllY, WhEn mEmbErS OF ThE mEDIA ATTEnD A prACTICE, ThEIr jOb IS TO SIT, ObSErvE, AnD TAkE nOTES. but for one day last fall, journalists cover-ing the Indiana University men’s team did

none of those things. Instead, they ran, jumped, lifted, and sweat—a lot.

The idea for the Cream and Crim-son Survivor media Challenge came from Assistant Athletic Director for media rela-tions j.D. Campbell and Strength and Con-ditioning Coach je’ney jackson. The two were producing a video about the players’ off-season conditioning program when they wondered what it would be like to give the media an up-close-and-person-al look at the team’s workout program. jackson took the idea to head Coach Tom Crean, who loved it.

“We wanted to do a media event that was a little different,” Campbell says. “We thought putting journalists through a workout would give them an idea of not only what a strength and conditioning coach does, but what play-ers have to go through. We also have a new basketball practice facility, and this was a great way to give the media an opportunity to see all the things we have available.”

There was a great turnout, with everyone from local beat writers and television reporters to a journalist from the big Ten network and ESpn.com’s pat Forde coming out to take the chal-lenge. The participants went through a typical day of strength and condition-ing for the team, including a warmup, a plyometrics circuit, sprints, a tire roll, sled work, and a trip up the memorial Stadium stairs carrying another person on their back.

“The media’s response was unbeliev-able,” Campbell says. “Everyone looked forward to it and had a great time—though more than a few people were sore the morning after.”

Crean and the IU players were pres-ent to lend a helping hand and provide encouragement. “That was another posi-tive aspect, because it gave the media an opportunity to interact with the coaches and players in their natural setting—access journalists don’t normally have,” Campbell says.

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After spending the first 15 years of his col-lege coaching career as an assistant, most recent-ly at Virginia Tech and George Mason University, Bill Courtney landed his first head coaching job last spring, replacing Steve Donahue as the Head Men’s Coach at Cornell University. With the Big

Red, Courtney was handed the keys to a highly successful Ivy League program that won three consecutive conference titles and advanced to the 2010 NCAA Sweet 16 under Donahue, who parlayed his achievements into the head job at Boston College. We talked to Courtney about the challenges of making his mark on a team coming off the most suc-cessful season in school history.

CM: What was your approach to taking over for such a popular and winning coach?

Courtney: Coach Donahue had a tremendous amount of suc-cess, but I needed to put my own stamp on the program. I’m not Steve Donahue, and I can’t coach his system—I had to lead with my strengths and be the best Bill Courtney I could be. That was

true for the players, too. They didn’t want to be last year’s team. They wanted to make a mark for themselves on and off the basketball court.

How did you decide what to change? You can’t abandon your ideas when you

take over a program, but if you want to get the most out of your personnel, you need to adjust your system to fit the talent. Coach Donahue recruited some very cerebral players, and he built his team around being able to make three-point-ers, so we took advantage of that. In a lot of ways, our two approaches are very similar, and that helped make the adjustment easier.

How did you get the team to buy into your system?

First and foremost, I made sure the returning players understood they’re the most important people in the program. They needed to know I care about their success, not only on the court but in everything they do, including family life, schoolwork, hopes, and ambi-tions. If you connect with them on that level, they’ll work hard for you.

That’s true for the new players, too. As soon as I took this job, I met with each of the recruits and their families, making sure everyone knew they were in good hands. The prospective student-athletes and their parents saw how much my staff and I cared about their futures, and as a result, we didn’t lose a single player.

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the media to get an idea of the dif-ferent aspects of the conditioning and training program and how many differ-ent parts of the body our players have to work.”

In the future, Campbell would like to continue hosting media events that give reporters an inside look at the col-lege basketball experience. “Maybe we’ll do something with academics, where the media goes to a class with a player,” he says. “We want to try different things that will show people what student-athletes have to do outside of playing games. This year’s event was an excellent opportunity for us to interact with the media on a different level, and we’d like to keep building on that next year.”

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Work for Play Pays Off

LIke Many aThLeTIC deparTMenTs aCross The CounTry, MedIna (ohIo) hIgh sChooL has instituted pay-to-play fees in response to budget cuts. unlike other schools, however, there are no waivers for low-income families and no cap to the amount a family pays.

In response to the high cost, a community member and the Medina athletic department came up with a work-to-play program to help offset the $660 per sport fee. athletes fill out a form indicating the kind of work they are be available to perform—options range from car washing to baby sitting—and athletic director Jeff harrison matches those requests to job offers e-mailed to him by people in the community.

“The program is really good for athletes because it’s more flexible than a part-time job,” says harrison. “They can’t get a job at Mcdonald’s because they have practice in the afternoon when they’d need to work.”

To publicize the program, the school included information in cham-ber of commerce newsletters and ran ads in three local newspapers. even-

tually, all three papers ran stories on the program, as did a local TV station. Most of the publicity, however, comes from word of mouth.

In the first few months of the program, 60 athletes signed up, and roughly three-quarters of them were assigned work. one job paying between $7-10 per hour may not seem likely to put a dent in the $660 price tag, but harrison says the generosity of the public makes it economically viable for the athletes.

“one individual gave a student $300 for three hours of work,” he says. “That’s not typical, but the community knows what the costs are for the kids.”

a more common scenario involves the athlete developing a relation-ship with the employer and returning for regular work. “once I establish a line of communication, these employ-ers ask for the kids again,” harrison says. “one woman, when I set her up with an athlete, said, ‘We’ll give them enough work to cover their entire par-ticipation fee.’”

The benefits of the program go beyond simply raising money. “The student-athletes are performing a service and they’re excited there’s an opportunity for them,” harrison says. “and it’s good to see some of the old-er people in the community interact-ing with the youth.”

putting the event together was fairly simple. Campbell found a day that worked well with the team’s schedule and informed the media of the plan.

Then Jackson was charged with creating the workout regimen. “It was key for Je’ney to put together a comprehensive program,” Campbell says. “We wanted

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To help offset a $660 sport participation fee, Medina (Ohio) High School offered players a work-to-play option.

In October, the Indiana men’s team hosted a media event that put jour-nalists like the Fort Wayne Gazette’s Lamond Pope through sample work-outs performed by Hoosier players.

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Tom Vix has seen the other side, and says he’s okay with it. For Vix, that ”other side” is life without basketball. After 25 years coaching the boys’ team at Rush-

ford-Peterson (Minn.) High School, Vix took the 2008-09 season off to look after his aging parents and his sister, who had been diag-nosed with cancer and passed away in June at age 56.

Vix returned to the sidelines in 2009-10 and took a scrappy,

undersized group of players to the state semifinals, earning him Winona Daily News Basketball Coach of the Year laurels. Over the years, he’s won two state champion-

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ships, amassed nearly 500 career victories, and been inducted into the Minnesota Bas-ketball Coaches Association (MBCA) Hall of Fame.

He’s accomplished all this by taking the tal-ent he’s been dealt—from a school with a total enrollment of around 200 students—and shaping his offensive and defensive systems to suit players’ strengths. In this interview, Vix, who also teaches science at Rushford-Peterson, talks about his coach-ing style, the time he spent away from the game, winning with overachievers, and his team’s run-in with a 10-point, 280-pound trophy deer.

CM: Why have your teams been consis-tently successful?

Vix: We do things a little differently than

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most teams. A lot of coaches work their kids really hard early in the season, only to see them burn out at the end. We go the other way—I like to start slowly and build for the state tournament. For example, with our run-ning, I like to give the team a lighter load at first, and then max out at tournament time.

We also work really hard on the mental part of the game and building team chem-istry throughout the year. For example, we talk before practice about what we want to accomplish during that practice, then after-ward we discuss what went well and what still needs work.

It takes time, but by the end of the sea-son, we have developed a strong relationship and understanding of each other’s needs. Plus, I like to have fun and joke around with my players—it’s supposed to be fun, and if it stops being fun, they’re not going to buy in.

Known for adapting his style to suit his play-ers’ strengths, Rushford-Peterson (Minn.) Head Boys’ Coach Tom Vix led an undersized team, including 5-foot-8 guard Kasey Olloff, right, to the 2010 state semifinals.

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You’re known for having a calm demeanor on the sideline. Does that come naturally?

I’m not a yeller, and I think kids respond to that. I’ve been around the game long enough that I’m not easily surprised when things don’t go our way. I tend to be pretty even-keeled. During games, I usually stay in my seat. But when I do get up, the kids know there is a good reason for it.

How do you fit your offensive and defensive systems to the players you have?

We’ve run all sorts of defenses and offenses. For example, when I have a lot of

big kids, I like to play tough man-to-man defense and get after people, and run flex sets on offense.

However, I haven’t had many big kids the last few years, so we’ve played every-thing under the sun defensively to both-er people. Offensively, we’ve adjusted to being undersized by playing five outside, one post and four out, and whatever else worked with the players we had.

Rushford and Peterson high schools consolidated in 1990. What was the first year of that combined team like?

There were lots of challenges. For one, we had 24 juniors and seniors and just 15 uniforms. So we’d rotate uniforms and try to get everyone equal playing time. There were people in the stands with stopwatches keeping track of how much playing time each kid got. Even though I had spent the previous six seasons coach-ing Rushford High School, I wasn’t from either place, and I honestly didn’t know where most of my players lived.

We kept the Rushford colors and nick-name, and some people from Peterson were understandably upset about losing some of their tradition. But the consolida-tion really wasn’t an issue for us as a team. The kids got along great and we had no

problems internally. We ended up having a good year and made it to the sectional finals.

How did you arrive at the decision to take the 2008-09 season off to be with your family?

My sister was the hub of our family. She took care of everyone, and when she got sick, it impacted my parents and her family. Someone had to step in and help take care of our parents, and I knew I couldn’t do that well and coach at the same time, so I hung up my whistle. It was a gut feeling I had, and I think it was the right decision. In the long run, it made me

see things differently, and I think it made me a better person—and if you grow into a better person, I think you grow into a better coach, too.

Who handled the head coaching duties while you were away?

I asked a player from my 1991 team, Jake Dahl, who’s a fifth-grade teacher in our district, if he’d take over for me. He understood the system and was more than happy to oblige.

How involved were you that year? Jake and I would discuss X’s and O’s,

strategy, as well as the little things—although I was careful not to impose. I made a few suggestions, and I scouted when I could. Actually, Jake’s filling the scouting role now that I’m back and wants to continue coaching here at some point.

Your 2009-10 team was described as a group of gritty overachievers. Is that a fair assessment?

I agree with that. We were 11-14 head-ing into the tournament, when the kids told me they had the goal of playing at the Target Center, which is the site of the state final four. We had lost our last six games, but it felt like we were still improving.

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It didn’t seem realistic that we could make it that far, but the kids decided we could, and that we should begin two-a-day practices to help reach that goal. That’s when good things started happening for our team. In the tournament, we beat a school that had thumped us by 30 a few weeks earlier, then lost in the state semis to the eventual champion.

What was the biggest benefit of the two-a-day practices?

It didn’t do much for us physically. But mentally, it made a big difference. You can look back after you’ve won a big game and say, “This is why we worked so hard, this is why we practiced twice a day, and why we were in the gym at 6:30 in the morning.”

What was your offensive strategy?We made sure we always got quality

shots, the kids did a great job of not turning the ball over, and we consistently made the extra pass. Our offense was based on pen-etrating and making good kick-out passes to open shooters. We got a lot of good looks, and the kids were really good at knocking down those shots.

On the way home from a game that season, your team bus hit a trophy buck and you decided to bring the dead deer home on the bus. Why?

After we hit the deer, I realized that just about every kid on the bus was a deer hunter. They were bending over backward to look at it out the windows, and I knew that as soon as we got back to school, it’d be like a NASCAR race with those kids trying to drive back and pick up that deer.

It was really icy that night, we were 25 miles from home, and I didn’t want them driving back for it. It was 1 a.m. and I thought the least damaging decision was to take it with us. We have a really good natural resources department at our school, and the deer is mounted there.

What are some of the biggest changes you’ve seen in the game over the last few years?

In Minnesota, we’ve recently gone to 18-minute halves, something we adopted while I was president of the MBCA in 2007-08. It’s changed how you manage a game—you end up playing a lot more kids, which is what it was designed to do.

Honestly, I didn’t like it at first, even though I had pushed for it. I liked to work the clock at the end of a quarter, and I also liked to start quarters by turning up the pressure on the other team. But it gives you

four extra minutes in a game, and you do substitute a lot more.

What else has changed, and what hasn’t? Kids are different now than they were

25 years ago. Back then, parents just sort of turned their kids over to you and weren’t quite as involved. And the kids worked harder, although they probably were not as skilled as they are today.

Kids today have a sense of entitlement. And even though they haven’t put the work

in, sometimes they feel like they deserve the rewards. But good basketball is still good basketball—if you play as a team, you work hard, and defend well, the odds are good that you’ll be successful.

How long will you keep coaching? I’m getting close to the time when I could

retire from teaching and I won’t coach after I stop teaching. I believe that I’m a teacher, and basketball is part of that. The court is just a different type of classroom. CM

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or the University of Georgia women’s team, practice time is sacred. According to Head Coach Andy Landers, there are vir-tually no excuses for missing a practice or being late. Even if a player is unable to participate, she is expected to come to practice, sit on the bench, and watch. But if a team member has a conflict relating to academics, practice becomes secondary.

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“We place academics above everything else,” Landers says. “If a player comes to me and says her class is having a study session at the same time as a practice, I tell her to go to the study session. We give mentoring, tutoring sessions, and study hall appoint-ments higher priority than practice, film, and individual workouts.”

Landers has maintained this philosophy throughout his career and worked hard to stay consistent. It’s one reason why every four-year letter winner who has played under him has received a degree from Geor-gia. The Bulldogs were recently recognized by the NCAA for being in the top 10 percent of all women’s basketball teams in the multi-year Academic Progress Rate (APR), posting

a perfect score of 1,000 in the latest data. It doesn’t matter if it’s a preseason workout or the day before a big game, the message is always the same: Academics come first.

In the mid 1980s, Landers coached Teresa Edwards, a two-time All-American and five-time Olympian. “The day before we played a game against Tennessee, Teresa had a group study session with a history profes-sor scheduled at the same time as practice,” Landers says. “In this practice, we were cov-ering all our scout stuff for Tennessee and going over our game strategy, but she went to the tutorial.

“In those situations, I can tell that deep down inside the player is thinking, ‘We play in two days, I’m a starter, and we’re going

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over important stuff in practice. But I really need to meet with this teacher. I wonder what Coach is going to say about it,’” he continues. “I always tell them they need to meet with their professor. Adults generally say the right things and give young people the right advice. But often times, when there’s a hard choice to be made, people make compromises. We don’t. By staying the course, our players realize we’re serious about the importance of concentrating on academics.”

Keeping players focused on the aca-demic side of being a student-athlete has never been more important. With a strong

emphasis on the APR in college and higher standards in many high schools, players at all levels need to spend time hitting the books before they can even consider hit-ting a jump shot. And by providing the proper support and motivation, you can help ensure that your players get the most out of their educational experience.

PLANNING AHEADAt Washington University in St. Louis,

the average ACT score for men’s basketball players is 32. While that’s an excellent score,

Head Coach Mark Edwards’s players can’t rest on the academic laurels they earned in high school.

“Student-athletes who come here find they’re going to have to be academical-ly competitive with an entirely different population than they’re used to,” Edwards says. “For instance, in high school, maybe they could do their homework in 30 min-utes each night. Here, they’re surrounded by students who are just as intellectually capable, and that makes it a tough, very competitive environment.”

One aspect Edwards’s players struggle with is time management. Between prac-

tice, classes, homework, and social time, it can often seem like there aren’t enough hours in the day. He says it’s important to help your athletes realize that isn’t the case.

“Each year, during the first week of classes, we put our players in touch with the school’s educational resource center,” Edwards says. “There, they put on a special session about how to study, time manage-ment, and where to seek support. That has been very helpful.”

At Gonzaga University, the men’s and women’s teams scored well above the

NCAA’s APR minimum and avoided pen-alties in the latest multiyear data. In fact, both squads turned in perfect scores for the 2008-09 academic year. One strategy the school uses to help athletes manage their time is to help them create a detailed schedule for each day.

“We usually put together a schedule that starts at 8 a.m. and ends at 10 p.m. every day,” says Rian Oliver, Basketball Academic Coordinator at Gonzaga. “If a player is really struggling with time management, we’ll block out every hour with something, whether it’s sleeping, eating, studying, or whatever I put together a master schedule

to show student-athletes they can fit every-thing they need to do into a week and still have time to socialize. From a visual per-spective, it’s nice for them to see they can actually do it.”

Planning ahead and drawing up a sched-ule not only helps athletes realize their workload isn’t overwhelming—it also helps them stay ahead of the game and avoid

mike phelps is an Assistant Editor at Coaching Management. He can be reached at: [email protected].

At Norfolk (Va.) Public Schools, academic success isn’t just a point of emphasis—it’s a neces-sity for students who want to participate in athletics. For over a decade, student-athletes in the district have had to maintain a 2.0 grade point average in order to remain eligible to play on a sports team.“It’s been exceptional,” says Director of Athletics Joel Wagner. “I was on the front line, so I saw kids who were just meeting the minimum state requirements of pass-ing five classes. Now the grade point aver-age of student-athletes is higher than that of the non-athlete students.”

The policy was phased in over three semesters. In fall 1998, student-athletes were required to hold a 1.3 GPA, which rose to 1.65 for the spring semester and

2.0 the following fall. The rule also applies to middle school student-athletes.

Jack Baker, Head Boys’ Coach at Maury High School in Norfolk, was not a fan of the new standard when it was first imple-mented, but has since come to appreciate it. “Originally, I was against it because not everybody can be a C student,” Baker says. “Maybe a kid is trying the best he can and he gets a 1.9. Some kids are limited academically, and I didn’t want that kid to be unable to play sports because he didn’t make it despite doing the best he could.

“Early on, I had a player who was very limited academically and ended up just under a 2.0,” he adds. “In talking to his teachers, they said he tried as hard as he could. But it wasn’t good enough to play. That bothered me, but over time I think 99 percent of the kids have adjusted to what they have to do if they want to continue to play.”

Juniors and seniors who fall under a 2.0 can use a waiver to exempt themselves from the rule for one semester. And stu-dents transferring from other high schools have a nine-week grace period before the policy applies to them. Last year, the dis-trict also adopted an exemption for fresh-men, giving them one year before having to maintain a 2.0 to participate in sports.

“Coming to a larger school environment, sometimes they need that semester to get a foothold,” says Wagner. “What’s astounding is that there have only been a few kids who needed the exemption.”

Wagner believes the 2.0 rule has been suc-cessful largely because the district didn’t simply announce it and walk away. “At each school, the principal, athletic director, coaches, and the academic advisor are all monitoring what is happening academi-cally,” he says. “The emphasis is on aca-demics first for all of our kids.”

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procrastination. That’s one of the aspects emphasized at Syracuse University, which is working to improve its men’s team’s APR after three players left school early to play professionally following the 2008-09 season.

“Little things like reading every night instead of cramming for an exam at the last minute, or getting a paper done early so it can be reviewed by a writing consultant are

very important,” says Kevin Wall, Director of Student-Athlete Support Services at S.U. “If you’re pulling an all-nighter to get a paper done, your paper won’t be as good as if you had begun it sooner. And because you were up all night, that carries into practice.”

Teaching time management also involves looking at the big picture. For athletes at all levels, that usually means understanding when they are going to miss class and con-necting with teachers to make sure school-work stays up to date.

“Our students and staff work directly with faculty,” Wall says. “Our staff will send out a travel schedule for the entire semester and sit down with students to look at assign-ment dates and put together a calendar for when things are due. It’s all about having a plan in place and trying to be proactive.

“Rightfully so, a lot of athletes are very confident in their abilities in many areas,” he continues. “So it can take time to realize that seeking help is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.”

EXTRA HELPIt takes more than teaching time man-

agement skills to keep student-athletes on the right track academically. Another help-ful strategy is to provide support to help athletes succeed.

At Syracuse, Wall matches players with tutors and mentors based on need. While both services are in place to help athletes excel in the classroom, they serve very dif-ferent purposes.

“Tutors are more subject specific,” Wall says. “For example, if an athlete is taking an introductory psychology class, the tutor is someone who’s taken the course and is familiar with the material.

“Mentors are more general,” he contin-ues. “They’re typically graduate students or professionals who have an understanding

of the educational process and are there to provide another layer of general guidance and support.”

Washington also uses tutoring servic-es—but with a twist. Frequently, upperclass-men on the basketball team will tutor their younger teammates. “Our athletes are very open to that,” Edwards says. “It’s easier for them to communicate because they’re talk-

ing to someone who knows exactly what they’re going through. If we have a junior or senior engineering major and a freshman interested in engineering, the freshman can seek guidance for a particular course or solicit advice for the courses they should be looking at.”

Having players look after their team-mates academically has additional benefits, too. “We’ve found that student-athletes who serve as academic mentors typically see their grade point average and their level of mas-tery of the subject increase,” says Dr. Harvey Fields, Assistant Director of Academic Pro-grams at Cornerstone, Washington’s aca-demic resource center. “Also, it helps build a strong relationship among team members. Frankly, it helps the coach promote the message that you are a student-athlete first, because you have athletes on your team who are making a commitment to help others be successful academically.”

Georgia also offers mentors and tutors to athletes, but Landers and his coaching staff like to get personally involved. Each of the Bulldogs’ four coaches is assigned players to keep track of academically.

“We meet with our players all the time,” Landers says. “We’ll do different things in each meeting, such as talk about goals for finishing out the semester. We also map out every assignment that is due in each class and every time they get an assignment back, they come in to see the coach who oversees their progress. They tell us what their grade is, we record it, and see if we’re on track to reach the end-of-semester goal that we set.”

Another effective tactic is to encourage players to attend study hall sessions when they have work to get done. However, many schools keep this optional and are moving away from requiring players to attend a spe-cific number of study hall hours per week.

“It’s more objective based,” Wall says. “We don’t have a set number of hours per week for players to be in study hall. If some-one has a paper due, they come in and stay until it’s complete.

“But they shouldn’t view study halls as another time drain,” Wall continues. “I don’t want a player to think, ‘I have to do two hours in study hall tonight to meet my

time and then I can leave.’ We’re trying to get them to think about getting stuff done in a more productive manner, rather than just watching a clock. We provide them a place where they can be productive.”

The same holds true at the high school level. At Maury High School in Norfolk, Va., Head Boys’ Coach Jack Baker keeps up to date on all of his players’ assignments and attendance. He also works closely with teachers to keep tabs on his team’s academic standing.

“Particularly at the beginning of a school year, teachers may not know who’s on the basketball team,” Baker says. “So I’ll notify them of who’s on the team, and they let me know if there are any issues with a player. I don’t want anyone to fall through the cracks.”

Student-athletes at Maury used to have to attend a required study hall monitored by a tutor before they could go to practice. But due to district budget constraints, funding for the sessions was eliminated. Still, Baker works hard to make sure his players get the help they need.

“Part of my message to our teachers is that if one of our kids needs to stay after school for extra work, let me know and that player can either be late to practice or miss it,” he says. “We also have a program where the students can come into school on Satur-days and get assistance from a teacher. That seems to be working well.”

A FROSH STARTA point of emphasis for many coaches

and academic advisors is to make sure play-ers get off on the right foot during—or even before—their freshman year. At Washing-ton, Fields meets with each incoming men’s and women’s basketball player to talk about the university and the academic resources that are available.

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“Meeting with them early on in their career helps them put a face with a name,” Fields says. “Then, they feel more comfort-able if they need to come to me in the future for help.”

Gonzaga has a fall semester freshman athletics class that all incoming student-ath-letes are required to take. “We do a bunch of workshops on everything from study skills to time management to nutrition to finan-cial planning,” Oliver says. “We also have sports psychologists come in. We try to hit on a little bit of everything that we’ve seen freshmen struggle with.”

At Syracuse, mentoring and tutoring programs are ramped up for first-year play-ers. “For men’s and women’s basketball, all

of our incoming students are matched with a mentor and have more required tutoring,” Wall says. “Juniors or seniors with at least a 3.0 have the option of coming to us and asking for a tutor in a specific subject or not having any at all. That provides a little incentive for the freshmen, because they see that if they do well, they’ll eventually have the freedom and flexibility to choose whether or not they use a tutor.

“It’s really about making sure no one falls behind,” he continues. “When a player gets behind, it’s hard to catch up because of all the time demands and travel associ-ated with college basketball. It’s important that students are on top of things from the beginning.”

For high school coaches, it’s important to help prepare athletes for the rigors of college learning. “You’d be surprised—sometimes players think college is just about playing basketball all day,” Baker says. “I want to make sure they realize what they’re getting into. That’s why when a college coach comes to recruit one of my players, I’ll ask that coach to talk to them about life in college, including schoolwork. It’s much different than high school because they’re on their own a lot more.

“Sometimes the players get tired of lis-tening to me, but if a college coach talks about it, they’ll listen,” he continues. “I try to bring in people with different perspectives

so the message is different than what they hear from me all the time.”

High school coaches should also have a firm grasp of NCAA rules and other regu-lations regarding academics. “They have to understand that while the NCAA has requirements, every institution has its own standards,” Landers says. “Also, high school coaches need to want to help. If you care, you’ll discover what is required academi-cally by the schools that are interested in your players.”

It’s also key for coaches to make sure their star seniors don’t catch a case of senioritis. “It’s critical to not lose sight of how impor-tant it is to finish high school strong from an academic standpoint,” Oliver says. “You

can’t just take two courses your senior year. If you do that, then it’s going to be really tough to adjust to being a college freshman with five or six classes.”

SOURCE OF MOTIVATIONAll the tutoring, mentoring, study ses-

sions, and time management in the world won’t do any good if your players aren’t invested in optimizing their educational experience. To give players a more complete perspective on academics, Syracuse leans on its stable of alumni.

“Former players who are back on cam-pus working on their degrees can provide realistic case studies for the current players,” Wall says. “They say, ‘It’s much easier to get it done when you’re here on campus. All you have is school and basketball. Trying to come back after your playing days are over or during your professional career is very difficult.

“Those alums provide a great exam-ple because their presence underscores the importance of having a degree,” he con-tinues. “And they provide guidance in that they wish they would have focused more on academics while they were in school.”

It’s also important to treat each player as an individual and understand his or her needs. The whole team shouldn’t be lumped together in one group when it comes to academics.

“We use a very individualized approach,” Oliver says. “Players come from very unique backgrounds. We have six international stu-dents on our roster, so the systems they went through in their secondary education are very different from those experienced by American student-athletes. It’s important to identify early on what we can do to help them either catch up or continue to thrive.

“For some students, it’s my job to push them a little bit more and challenge them to be better,” she continues. “I can’t allow them to slack off.”

Oliver tries to build a rapport with players using frequent meetings. Once that mutual respect has been created, players are usually more apt to listen to what she has to say.

“I meet with everybody at least once a week and some people every day, depending on the need,” Oliver says. “I start by build-ing a relationship so they realize I actually know what I’m talking about. I try to give them examples of people from the sports world who were wildly successful in a very short period of time, and then their careers ended abruptly. What happens to those players next? That’s not always something that they’re really excited to think about, but it’s necessary.”

Baker constantly shares those sentiments with his players. “We’re always explaining, ‘This isn’t about athletics—this is about your life. Very few high school players are going to get an athletic scholarship at the college level, so this is about your life and what you’re going to do with it.’”

The simplest—and possibly most impor-tant tactic is to stay involved in players’ lives and not let them slide off track. Doing so will make all the hard work more than worthwhile—for the player and the coach.

“I have worked with some players who have been the first in their family to go to college or to get their degree,” Oliver says. “A lot of players don’t have great support systems at home, and they may even have someone telling them there is no way they are going to graduate from college. And then they do it. That’s very rewarding for them and everyone involved.” CM

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“I start by building a relationship so they realize I actually know what I’m talking about. I try to give them examples of people from the sports world who were wildly successful in a very short period of time, and then their careers ended abruptly. What happens to those players next?” RiaN OliveR, BasketBall aCademiC COORdiNatOR at GONzaGa

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During his 20-plus years coaching, Jim Long can recall only a couple of instances when someone really got under his skin. But one in particular stands out to the Brenham (Texas) High School Head Baseball Coach.

No matter what Long did, a father of one of his athletes took issue with the coach’s decisions. The parent constantly approached

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Long with complaints after games and even-tually went to the athletic director and school board to air his criticisms. Long even had to defend himself in front of school board members. Fortunately, the board sided with Long, but the whole process made him aware of an emerging reality: handling negative feedback effectively is part of a coach’s job.

“For whatever reason, I’ve found that fans today, especially parents, think they have a right to do or say whatever they want when it comes to coaches and athletics,” Long says. “We’re not going to stop them, so it’s up to each coach to understand the best way to deal with that criticism and not let it affect your team.”

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eventually disappear. But that tactic can eas-ily backfire.

Chuck Wilcoxen, Head Men’s and Wom-en’s Cross Country and Track and Field Coach at Principia College, says it’s impor-tant to engage anyone who is delivering criticism or negative feedback. “If someone is upset about something, sooner or later they have to get it out,” he says. “If they sit on it, it’s going to simmer, and that just makes them more upset, which isn’t good for you, and isn’t good for the program. Even if it’s the same parent again and again with things you don’t think are justified, you have to let the person be heard.”

That’s why instead of ignoring it, many coaches suggest devel-oping a philosophy and strategy for dealing with negative feedback. And the number-one item of a good strategy is to always stay calm, even if the other person is not.

“Getting mad is not productive whatsoever,” Long explains. “That can make you look worse than the person complaining, which you never want. You need to remember you’re dealing with people who, because of their emotions, are making ignorant decisions. When I think of it that way, these situa-tions are a lot easier to deal with.”

For Karen Kunka, Head Volley-ball Coach at North Central Col-lege, staying calm requires taking a step back. Rather than responding immediately, she sets up a meet-ing to discuss the complaint. “If you let a discussion go on in the heat of the moment, you can get backed into a corner with some-one screaming at you,” she says.

Instead, Kunka likes to gain per-spective on the situation and think through her solution, rather than being forced into a snap decision or appear-ing defensive. “You have to allow yourself to pull back from a situation a little bit,” she says. “I also like to have someone I can run things past, like an assistant coach, before I react.”

Wilcoxen takes a similar approach. “Don’t react when you’re having the initial discus-sion,” he says. “Hash things out by yourself when you’re not dealing with any feelings of defensiveness or anger. With a little perspec-tive, you may even find that the person has an excellent point that will make you a better coach.”

In fact, Wilcoxen tries to learn from all feedback. “What may at first seem to be a petty complaint can actually be very valuable information,” he says. “For example, parents

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know things about their kids that coaches don’t. The first couple years I coached I was probably a little defensive, but the more open I was to others’ opinions, the more I learned. If a kid tells me they’re feeling great, and I find out from the parents that they’re not, that’s good information.”

The ParenT TraPFor most coaches, the largest source of

complaints is parents. That’s why many coaches have developed formal policies on how parents should voice their concerns.

One standard and effective rule is to never

talk to a parent about anything significant immediately following a contest. Whenever Long is confronted by a parent after a game, he’ll tell the parent that he’d be happy to speak with them and address the problem, but not right now.

“I’ll ask them if we can set up a time the next day to discuss it,” he says. “It gives me and the parent a little time to relax and think about the situation. People usually make dumb decisions when they’re really upset.”

Kunka uses a similar policy, but with an added twist. She insists the player herself be involved in the discussion.

For example, North Central’s 2008 squad included 18 freshmen among nearly 30 play-ers, and playing time was understandably

limited. One freshman’s parent e-mailed to voice her displeasure over her daughter’s playing time.

“In my reply, I said that I would be happy to discuss this matter—with the parent and the child present at the same time,” Kunka says. “Nine times out of 10, the player doesn’t even know the parent sent the e-mail or called. I’m happy to talk with parents, but not without their child knowing about it.

“Usually, I don’t hear from those parents again,” she continues. “They want to express their complaint but they don’t want their child to know.”

The question of whether to discuss play-ing time at all with parents can be a tricky one. Long is one coach who does not. He explains to parents that playing time is based on what he feels is best for the team and that his decisions must be respected. “Parents will often criticize and say their child doesn’t have a fair chance, but they don’t see what happens in practice every day,” he says.

Ed Terwilliger, Head Football Coach at Olentangy High School in Lewis Center, Ohio, doesn’t shy away from discussing a player’s place within the team, but he always

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While it’s important to have a great plan in place to deal with unsolicited feedback, you can also work on nip-ping any potential criticism in the bud through up-front communication. Keeping parents in the loop is a great place to start.

“We have a parent meeting before the season begins to go over logistics, who’s going to play, and how we’ll make our decisions,” says Jim Long, Head Baseball Coach at Brenham (Texas) High School. “We talk a lot about playing time so people really understand what goes into it. You’ll always have people who disagree with you,

but a meeting like that can help stop many complaints.”

In addition to a preseason par-ents meeting, Ed Terwilliger, Head Football Coach at Olen-tangy High School in Lewis Cen-ter, Ohio, has a meeting with the parents of his team captains at the conclusion of each season, where he lays the groundwork for the upcoming off-season. Then, in May, he holds another meeting with all the parents to reaffirm his philosophy, clear up any questions, and discuss the summer schedule.

“If someone comes to me with a complaint, my first ques-tion to them is, ‘Were you at my parent meeting?’ Usually

they weren’t,” Terwilliger says. “At that time, I’ll pull out the handouts and catch them up on what we talked about.”

Terwilliger is also proactive in dealing with any criticisms that may arise from game-to-game during the regular season. He hosts a weekly meeting with his players’ parents on Monday nights during the season where he shows game film from the previous weekend and discusses the upcoming opponent.

“That’s a very positive thing,” he says, “because it allows me to go through the game, nar-rate, and explain the good, the bad, and the ugly.”

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makes sure the parent understands one very important ground rule. “I explain up front that my goal is to be as positive as I can be when talking about players in public,” he says. “But when we go into my office, you’re asking me to be brutally honest and I will be. If you’re going to challenge or question me, you better be ready for the real answer. Also, we’re only going to talk about your child and no one else.”

Beyond playing time, there are a host of other complaints parents may have brewing. Long tries to keep an ear open to them so they can be addressed quickly. If he believes a parent is having an adverse affect on the team, he will speak to the parent immedi-ately.

“I’ll bring the parent in and the first thing I’ll do is let them air things out,” he says. “Then I’ll try to explain exactly what’s going on and why we as coaches do what we do. Once the parent has a chance to speak in private and vent, they usually calm down and you don’t have any further problems.”

At Southwest DeKalb High School in Decatur, Ga., Head Girls’ Basketball Coach Kathy Richey-Walton has found it effective to have one parent serve as a liaison between her and the rest of the parent group. “This parent is very good at finding out what the problem is, then telling the others he’ll talk to me and make sure I’m aware of their con-cerns,” she says. “From there, I’ll decide how the situation needs to be handled.”

Managing Media Of course, unsolicited feedback isn’t lim-

ited to parents of players. Whether it’s on television, over the radio, in the newspaper, or on the Internet, the media are also a regu-lar source of criticism.

However, criticism by the media should be handled very differently than that from parents. When parents complain there is a lot of emotion involved that will remain until the situation is dealt with. Criticism from the media is part of what sells newspa-pers and often will be forgotten tomorrow.

Terwilliger’s football team gets a good deal of media coverage and he says the key with reporters is to take a professional approach. Understand that their job is to analyze your team’s performance and that their criticism is not personal. When there

is controversy, explain your decisions and then let it go.

“I embrace the media,” Terwilliger says. “I’m not the kind of coach who will get upset over an article and then refuse to return their calls. I understand the media has a job to do, and I tell my players the same thing.”

At Brenham, a local radio station broad-casts the school’s baseball games, and sev-eral newspapers regularly cover the team.

Following each game, Long does a post-game interview with the radio crew, who can be critical of decisions Long makes during the contest. For example, during the state tournament last year, Brenham twice had runners thrown out at home with two outs. Long knew he’d face some second-guessing during the postgame show, but relished the opportunity to present his side of the story.

“I like to let people know where I’m com-ing from,” Long says. “They may disagree with me, but at least they know the reason I did it. If a parent comes at you after a game, they don’t really deserve a response, but it’s nice to explain yourself in the newspaper or on the radio so your side can be heard.”

If something is said or written in the media and Long doesn’t have the chance to immediately respond, he’ll just let it go. For him, it’s not worth getting involved in a back-and-forth.

“It’s someone’s opinion,” he says. “I don’t think I need to justify myself in every situa-tion or call the reporter to ask why he or she wrote this. I would never do that. If people think a sports writer has all the answers, then that’s their problem.”

adMinistrative supportWhen complaints rise above normal vent-

ing, there is one more strategy to employ: Keep school administrators informed. “Whenever a situation develops, I will go to our adminis-trators to make them aware of what’s going on,” Richey-Walton says. “They appreciate being in the loop so they won’t be blindsided if someone brings it up.”

Terwilliger agrees. “Administrators have so much on their plates, the last thing they want is to be out in public and hear about how the football coach is an idiot,” he says. “Any information I give to parents, I also give to my athletic director and principal.

It’s documentation that they can read at their leisure and say, ‘This is what Coach Terwilliger is doing.’”

Keeping your administrators in the loop means little, however, if you’re not open and honest with them. “You head off a lot of problems just by being completely honest from the get-go,” Wilcoxen says. “Most misunderstandings are compounded by people at either end feeling they have to

hide something. If you’re withholding any information or misrepresenting anything, your anxiety is just going to increase.”

Also remember that administrators can be your allies. “One of the things I’ve learned is to always have someone else in on the con-versation if you foresee a problem,” Kunka says. “There have been times when someone has been really upset about something and didn’t get the response they wanted from me. So I’ve brought in to the meeting an assis-tant athletic director or our senior woman administrator. It’s important to have a third party present so there can’t be any ‘he said, she said,’ afterwards.”

Keeping administrators informed also garners their support, which can mean criti-cism does not escalate in the first place. “If you do not have their backing, you can’t be successful,” Long says. “I don’t care what any-body says. You can be the greatest coach in the world, but if the school board and the athletic director do not back you up when someone complains, you can still lose your job.”

Wilcoxen believes that the support he receives from administrators also makes him more confident when dealing with criticism. “If you feel you’re supported, you’re much more comfortable acknowledging you might have made a mistake,” he says. “I’ve always had what I feel to be unconditional support from my athletic directors. So I can say, ‘Well, maybe I screwed up,’ and not worry about losing my job.

“But, even more important, that feel-ing of confidence then comes across to the people you’re speaking with,” he contin-ues. “That allows a productive conversation where no one feels threatened—and really great things can happen.” CM

A version of this article is appearing in other sport-specific editions of Coaching Management.

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“Don’t react when you’re having the initial discussion. Hash things out by yourself when you’re not dealing with any feelings of defensiveness or anger. With a little perspective, you may even find that the person has an excellent point that will make you a better coach.” CHuCk WilCoxeN, HeaD TraCk & FielD CoaCH, PriNCiPia College

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An athletic department-wide philosophy that demands commitment, the “Butler Way” denies selfishness, accepts reality, and seeks improvement every day while putting the team above all else. It is practiced by every Bulldog athlete and coach—including the strength and conditioning department.

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that helped launch Bulldog basketball into national prominence.

SUMMER SETUPOur summer program is completely

voluntary, but we have great attendance from athletes who spend those months in and around Indianapolis (those who don’t receive simplified, written training instruc-tions before they leave). I tell the players that how much they improve over the summer is up to them—all I ask is that they give their best and make an effort to do the work. However, effort usually isn’t an issue—most

players strive to get better because they are driven by the Butler Way.

From June to August, our athletes per-form a four-day upper-body/lower-body split routine. The big-picture goal is for players to meet individually assigned benchmarks for strength and fitness.

On Sunday evenings, the players train their legs after a 90-minute open gym ses-sion. We consider this our moderate leg day, with each player spending a total of about 30 minutes in the weightroom.

During these workouts, the key lifts involve the leg press machine and hamstring strength-ening. The leg presses begin with four sets of 10 at 60 to 70 percent of personal max in the first three weeks, then proceed to clusters of 10 to 15 sets of two to three reps each at 75 percent of max and up—the players are free to decide for themselves how high they go.

For the hamstrings, partner glute-ham work is a staple. We also mix in stiff-leg dead-lifts, single-leg deadlifts, Romanian dead-lifts, and leg curls. Players round out these workouts with 10 minutes of core work and stretching using Swiss balls and bands.

Sunday is very important to us because it’s usually the only time we are in the weight-room together as a team. The other weekly sessions are more open-ended, scheduled around each player’s class and internship commitments.

Monday is an upper-body day, and the sessions last about 50 minutes. Our coach-ing staff pays close attention to each player’s progress in the bench press, setting indi-vidual goals for both one-rep max and 185-pound rep max. These workouts typically begin with a basic upper-body warmup and then proceed directly to the bench.

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We typically prefer to use flat bench or flat close-grip bench presses, especially when using heavy weight, and primarily train with sets in the four- to six-rep range. But in the last few weeks before fall testing, we will add more weight and lower the reps to two or three to prepare for the upcoming max-out.

Next come cleans, presses, and/or use of a push-movement machine called the Hammer Strength Jammer. My assistant Ross Bowsher and I like the Jammer because it’s biomechan-ically safe on the shoulders and the motion is very similar to the jerk movement, which promotes triple extension of the ankles, knees,

and hips in a way that transfers very well to the explosive demands of basketball.

After that, the next 30 minutes of the Monday workout is less structured, with the athletes performing prescribed exercises for the shoulders, lats, and upper back. We usual-ly assign one or two exercises for each muscle group, such as DB shoulders, alternate presses, shrugs, seated rows, standing bent-knee rows, lat pull-downs, and my favorite, chin-ups. The combinations vary greatly—perhaps the only constant is that we never do movements behind the head because the injury risk asso-ciated with them is too high.

The last five minutes of the session include several different stations, from partner resis-tance exercises to running the stack on biceps curls and triceps extensions. Finally, I like to challenge the players with a different finisher at each workout. For this, we frequently use chin-ups to exhaustion, partner push-ups, partner towel pulls, or planks.

Wednesday is usually our second leg day of the week. We consider it our heaviest day, and the session lasts about 45 minutes. We start with a total-body warmup, then do three to four sets of five reps of hang clean to squats followed by two to three more sets of hang cleans with two to four reps.

Next, we move on to heavy squats. After a three-week acclimation period, our players perform timed clusters of eight to 12 sets with two to three reps each. This squat work is very similar to our leg press progression, except that the squats are never performed to max effort. I have found sub-max clusters of squats are the best way to train legs for basketball, mainly because they force the athletes to really push themselves and their teammates. We keep it simple by starting each set on the minute,

at around 72 to 75 percent of the player’s estimated one-rep max. Last summer, 12 of our 14 players were able to squat 335 to 365 pounds for multiple sets of three reps.

After that, we spend roughly 20 min-utes on various exercises designed to correct strength imbalances between the right and left legs. Lunges are a staple of our program and we include many variations, such as twist, side, reverse, and overhead for three to four sets while holding 45 pounds and walk-ing 20 yards (the length of our weightroom).

Because basketball involves dynamic multi-planar movements, our players do at

least four sets of single-leg exercises in addi-tion to their lunge work. Examples include one-legged leg presses, heel touches while standing on a bench, split squats, step-ups, and one-legged RDLs.

The last five minutes of the Wednesday workout are dedicated to hamstring-specific work. With a partner, players perform glute-ham exercises and leg curls. To finish up, we do superset hamstring work and lunges with core exercises such as V-ups, sit-ups, and Russian twists.

Thursday is our final lifting day of the week. We begin these sessions with an upper-body warmup, then go straight to the Jam-mer or to barbell-based jerk exercises. Players typically perform five sets of five reps, start-ing each lift on the minute to set a tempo for the workout.

Next, we move on to chest work using two of my favorite exercises: flat dumbbell bench presses and 10-degree incline bench presses with a barbell. I keep the reps high (eight to 10) and weight in the range of 65 to 80 per-cent of max. For a new progressive challenge, we are currently experimenting with the addition of chain-resisted bench presses.

To avoid overtraining, and because this is our second chest workout in five days, I carefully monitor the players to make sure they stay within my recommended ranges for sets, reps, and effort percentages. The final 20 minutes of Thursday workouts are similar to our Monday upper-body routine, but with a greater emphasis on the posterior chain. For example, I like to finish with partner-assisted towel rows, chin-ups, and side deltoid raises.

From June to August, our athletes perform a four-day upper-body/lower-body split routine. The big-picture goal is for players to meet individually assigned benchmarks for strength and fitness.

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STRENGTH & CONDITIONING

Thursday is also when we implement conditioning and agility components into our workouts. In this part of our training, we mainly want to overload the energy system to a greater degree than typically happens on the court.

After a 15-minute active warmup consist-ing of movements like high knees, butt kicks, lunges, slides, and various types of skips, we do eight to 10 sets of simple plyos. I prefer using bleacher bounds to lessen the impact on the players’ joints, and we avoid high-stress plyos such as depth jumps. Then, after a brief water break, we do a 15-minute agility program emphasizing proper defensive posi-tions. During these exercises, I want players to concentrate on maintaining a slightly lower knee bend than they’re used to—Coach Brad Stevens is very fond of telling players to “stay lower, longer.”

Our agility work focuses first on body control, then speed. The phrase “Agility is the ability to control your mass and change direction” is posted in our weightroom to serve as a reminder of how important body control is to success. Changing direction on the court usually involves unbalanced,

dynamic one-legged movements. For that reason, we perform a lot of deceleration drills on Thursdays to complement the single-leg work we do on Wednesdays.

Players who enter our program can already run and jump proficiently, but they often do not understand the importance of decelerating under control and landing in a position they can react from. To be clear, we work on both acceleration and deceleration, but body control always comes first. You must control your body before you can con-trol your opponent.

To improve agility, we employ an agil-ity ladder and various footwork drills. The body’s positioning during the drills is of prime importance—I always stress quiet feet.

After agility work, we finish with 200-meter and 100-meter runs for roughly one mile of total distance. We then wrap things up with a cool down jog and band stretching.

FALL INTO PRESEASONDuring the fall, we stay with the same

basic four-day lifting schedule. It has been my experience that basketball players do best when the workouts are short (35 to 45

minutes) and frequent. We also stay with one conditioning-based workout each week.

By this time, coaches have begun indi-vidual skill work with players twice a week for 40 minutes at a time. These are very intense sessions in which the player works on sport-specific skills.

Before we implement any fall workout programs, our players undergo a battery of baseline body composition and strength and conditioning tests. A staple of these is the mile run, which is held as soon as players return for the fall semester. Though not over-ly sport-specific, the run gives our coaches a pretty good idea of where each player is in his conditioning and helps us adjust his workouts accordingly. Our expectation is that post players can complete the mile in under six minutes, wing players in under 5:45, and guards under 5:30. However, we adjust expectations for certain players upward or downward based on their ability.

To measure strength, we use the 185-pound bench press max rep test as well as one-rep max. Last season, six players benched over 300 pounds. Additionally, we test players on sit-up reps and the leg press.

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During the preseason, players must also pass our four-line test: Starting on the base-line, they must run to the foul line and back, half court and back, far foul line and back, and far baseline and back. We want them to average between 27.5 and 29.5 seconds.

With the exception of a body fat test, all our test results are evaluated against team-wide goals set by the coaches. The team has until the season starts to reach those goals, and we have succeeded in each of the past four years—a span during which the team’s overall record was 118-22.

If we have an athlete who is behind in his test results, we will include one to two special workouts with a focus on condition-ing only. We strive to make our conditioning sport-specific, emphasizing elements such as posture, change of direction, and sustain-ing a high energy level. Our players train to become better basketball players—not to do well on cardiovascular tests.

STRONG IN-SEASONWhen official practices begin and the

season is around the corner, we cut down to three days a week in the weightroom. We also

back off on leg work because the players’ legs take such a pounding during practices and games. For instance, squats are phased out in favor of body weight work, lunges, and step-ups with reps in the 10 to 12 range.

We continue to hit the upper body hard, and most of our work is performed in the five- to eight-rep range. In a typical workout, we ask players to work at 72 to 80 percent of their one rep max if doing five reps, and 62 to 70 percent if doing eight reps.

Once the game schedule begins, we pare down our weightlifting even more. When playing two to three games and practicing three to four times per week, there isn’t much time left for strength work. Still, our goal is to get in two weekly lifting sessions.

Because we are focused on winning games, not building weightlifters, the last thing I want to do is wear a player down in the weightroom. That’s why our basic approach is to perform total-body lifts for 30 to 40 minutes during these sessions, superset-ting opposing muscle groups.

We work the upper body at 85 to 95 percent intensity in-season, and stick to 75 to 80 percent intensity on the lower body.

As the season advances, we back off another 10 percent or more. And in the postseason, we do almost no leg work other than some step-ups, lunges, and hamstring curls.

Based on our past success, including last season’s championship game appearance, I consider our approach to in-season lift-ing very successful. In fact, eight days after that game, we administered the 185-pound bench press rep test and found that the team maintained just over 90 percent of its preseason strength baseline.

At Butler, we are blessed to have athletes who accept their responsibility to prepare for the upcoming season all year long. Our sport coaches and conditioning staff all con-tribute by maintaining a 12-month com-mitment to physical preparedness, so on any given day, our team is never too far from game shape. Add it all up, and you have the Butler Way. CM

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Case Study

Since joining the Chicago Bulls 10 years ago as Manager

of Purchasing, Ben Adair has taken on the challenge of finding the most effective visual communications tools for the coaches, conditioning professionals, and players. The coaching staff relies heavily on the use of whiteboards printed with court diagrams and workout charts to communicate with players. These visual communications tools can be found in the team's locker rooms, meeting rooms, coaches' offices, workout rooms, and gymnasium.

The Bulls’ whiteboards needed to withstand frequent use, without having their graphics fade. Adair became frustrated with the quality of the team's printed whiteboards. “We were disappointed in the ghosting left behind. Even though we used the appropriate materials for cleaning—they still didn't clean up well,” explains Adair. The stains interfered with basketball plays and notes written on the boards.

Adair had ordered from various well-known suppliers and manufacturers, but none of the whiteboards met his expectations. Determined to find a product that would work, Adair researched online and came across EverWhite, a manufacturer of visual communications solutions. EverWhite offers printed whiteboards with graphics that will not wear away and a lifetime guaranteed dry erase surface. Adair took advantage of EverWhite's offer and requested a free sample.

When the EverWhite whiteboard sample arrived, Adair tested it thoroughly. “The whiteness was outstanding

and the erasing capability was perfect,” he says. “The writing removed so easily and left the surface just as white as it was before.”

Adair wasted no time ordering EverWhite's printed whiteboards for his team. When the products arrived, he compared them side by side with his previous whiteboards. He noted that the EverWhite whiteboards had brighter graphics and a smoother writing surface. With the additional assurance of a lifetime guarantee, Adair felt confident he had made the right choice by choosing EverWhite boards.

When Chicago Bulls’ staff, coaches,x and players started using the new printed whiteboards, the response was very positive. The EverWhite boards provided the quality, stain-resistance, and customization they were looking for. According to Adair, “Everything from the customer service to the design of the graphics went smoothly. I wished I'd known about EverWhite years ago.”

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Better ShootingBetter Shooting will build a play-er’s entire shot, from footwork to the finishing stroke. JJ Redick and Coach Rick Torbett teach shooting techniques in this DVD suitable for both kids and high level players & coaches. Included is a training regimen and chart, geared to take the guesswork out of shot development, and an entire section is dedicated to women, including an interview with WNBA star Shay Doron. 3 hrs. & 36 mins.

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Price: $119.99Item Number: BD-03203

Bill Self: “Basic” and “Motion” 3-Out 2-In Zone Offenses

Bill Self focuses on seven prin-ciples for effective zone offense, and teaches you the Jayhawks’ “basic” and “motion” 3-Out 2-In Zone Offense. Coach Self walks through the necessary techniques of perimeter and post players, and also demon-strates drills that any coach at any level can use to enhance the continuity in the zone offense. 70 mins. 2005

Price: $39.99Item Number: BD-02422

Pat Summitt’s Mastering Special SituationsIn this DVD, Coach Sum-mitt will explore insights on handling special situations, such as pressure, press break, zone offense, attacking junk defenses and late game situations. Sum-mitt shows how to get the ball in bounds successfully when ahead, and demonstrates how to attack junk defenses late in the game with a 1-4 set. In ad-dition, Summitt shows several strategies to win games with a baseline out of bounds play and a set with 15 seconds left. 70 mins. 2008Price: $44.99Item Number: BD-02932

Mike Krzyzewski: Duke Basketball Agility & Condi-tioning Drills for Defense

The drills on this DVD will instill the discipline and mental toughness needed to make that critical defensive stop when you need it the most! Coach Krzyzewski teaches over 20 drills and strategies designed to optimize your defensive tactics, which will help with transition defense, shutting down perim-eter and post players, increas-ing ball pressure and building weak-side defense awareness. 50 mins. 2005

Price: $44.99Item Number: BD-02478F

Jim Boeheim’s Complete Guide to the 2-3 Match-up Zone Defense

This DVD outlines the respon-sibilities, rotations, and reads for each player. He details key concepts such as scouting, trap-ping, communication, bump-down situations, controlling penetration, defending baseline running, protecting the 3-point line, releasing cutters, protecting the high post area, rebounding, and transition defense back in to the 2-3 match-up. 57 mins. 2003Price: $39.99Item Number: BD-02114

Tom Izzo: Dominating Rebounding & Man-to-Man Defensive Drills

Coach Izzo shares one of the most dominating man-to-man defensive and rebounding sys-tems in college basketball today. Izzo covers defensive drills in-cluding: 1) Defending backdoor cuts, 2) Help and recover, 3) Reaction drills, 4) Pick and roll, 5) Pin down picks, 6) Double screens and 7) Switching on screens. 62 mins. 2004

Price: $39.99Item Number: BD-02260

The Nutrition EdgeLearn how proper nutrition can help your players reach their true potential through the valuable information presented in this collection prepared by Susan Kundrat, Sports Dietitian for the University of Illinois. Topics include recovery nutrition, nutrient timing, pregame meals, losing weight, caffeine, and hydration. It also includes case studies and a look at special situations including celiac disease and vegetarian athletes.

180 pages. 2010 • Price: $16.95Item Number: 111002

Blueprint for Better CoaChing

By Dr. DaviD hoCh

Blueprint for Better CoaChing

Any coach can conduct practice sessions, devise X’s and O’s and provide instruction and encouragement during games. There is, however, much more involved in the effort and process of coaching. There is the job of being a leader of your team. And to do that, you need to know about more than the sport you coach.

Blueprint for Better Coaching provides coaches with ideas on how to communicate well, organize all components of the team, and make the most of the off-season. It will give you the edge you need to be a positive and trusted leader in the arena of high school sports. If your goal is to improve as a coach and offer your student-athletes the best possible experience, you have come to the right book. Each chapter of this text will help you to understand the management side of coaching, and push you to continue to learn and grow as a professional.

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Blueprint For Better CoachingCoaching involves so much more than teaching skills, calling plays and winning games. Blueprint for Better Coaching includes concrete tips to help coaches in the following areas:• Short-range and long-range planning• Communication with athletes, parents, administrators, and media• Risk management responsibilities and administrative tasks

140 pages. 2011 • Price: $16.95Item Number: 111003

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Reduce GRoin injuRiesThe High Stepper develops explosive power in the hip flexors and legs in a running motion, substantially increasing athletes’ speed, quickness, and durability. Coaches notice fewer groin injuries with their athletes after training on the High Stepper. It can improve 40-yard dash times, decrease groin injuries, and train the legs to explode

higher and more powerfully. Powernetics • 800-829-2928www.powernetics.com Circle No. 510

FoR BetteR FlexiBilityThe new edition of “Full-Body Flexibility” contains 175 stretches and 23 routines that will help strengthen muscles to support the body and maximize the entire range of motion. It will also help enhance flexibility by challenging muscles with multiple techniques. Premier fitness instructor and author Jay Blahnik blends the best of yoga, Pilates, martial arts, and sport training to create stretching sequences that can be used for warm-ups, cool-down, and challenging fitness workouts. Use the book’s instruction and full-color photo sequences to take performance to new heights.Human Kinetics • 800-747-4457www.HumanKinetics.com Circle No. 512

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competition KettleBellThese steel kettlebells are color coded by weight for easy identification. A unique quality is that they are all the exact physical size and shape. This can help eliminate detrimental effects to skill techique. The unpainted handle allows for ease of movement as well as chalk application. Available in weights of 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 32, 36, 40, 44, and 48 kg. Power Systems, Inc. • 800-321-6975www.powersystems.com Circle No. 531

BalancinG actG Series Pro Protein Recovery Shake provides balanced nutrition for consumption after exercise to help jump-start recovery. With carbohydrates for glycogen restoration and an effective amount of protein containing all the essential amino acids needed to help support muscle recovery after training or competition, G Series Pro Protein Recovery Shake provides

a nutritional bridge between an athlete’s workout or competition and their next meal.Gatorade • 800-884-2867www.gatorade.com Circle No. 527

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practice perFectiONIt’s said that teams practice how they play, and Pro Look gives teams the chance to look in practice how they look when they play. Pro Look offers the same quality in its practice uniforms that the company appleis to game uniforms. With stitched-on twill letters and numbers, these uniforms aren’t a throw-away product. Pro Look offers free computer designs, no minimum orders, and an industry-leading lifetime manufacturing warranty. Pro Look Sports • 800-776-5665www.prolook.com Circle No. 514

aDhere lONgerEvery roll of Cramer 100-percent cotton porous tape is like the next, which means you can count on it to unwind consistently, conform better, and adhere longer. Cramer 950, constructed with a latex-free adhesive, is perfect for athletic trainers or athletic programs looking for a high-quality, economically priced porous tape alternative. Cramer Products has been the industry leader in sports medicine and athletic training room supplies for more than 85 years. Cramer Products • 800-345-2231www.cramersportsmed.com Circle No. 515

the Name yOu kNOwWilson is the official game basketball of the NCAA Championships, and the name behind more winning moments in sports than any other brand. A passion for innovation and technology has made Wilson the performance leader in basketball, and given players at every level the equipment they need to compete and win. Game basketballs are also customizable, so you can represent your team pride and keep track of your basketballs on the court.Wilson Sporting Goods Co. • 800-443-0011www.wilson.com Circle No. 516

twO FOr the price OF ONeNeed two uniforms but only have the budget for one? Pro Look has the answer—its reversible uniforms are made with the same high-quality materials it uses in all other products, and the quality is guaranteed with an industry-leading lifetime manufacturing warranty. With stitched-on twill letters and numbers, no minimum orders, and free computer design, Pro Look has you covered. Call or go online and let Pro Look design your reversible uniforms today.Pro Look Sports • 800-776-5665www.prolook.com Circle No. 517

New wave OF game BallsThe next generation in basketball design for the next generation of players, Wilson Wave Triple Threat Technology is already being used in nine state high school associations across the country. The insertion of 24 grooves into the normal flat surface of a basketball allows a player more control in all aspects of his or her game. The Wave game ball features a sweat-absorbing composite leather cover.Wilson Sporting Goods Co. • 800-443-0011www.wilson.com Circle No. 520

make it yOur OwNFully customizable EverWhite® athletic whiteboards can display any graphics— such as team logos, mascots, or even photos—to really make it

your whiteboard. The graphics are embedded under the dry erase surface, creating a smooth writing surface with vibrant graphics that are wear-resistant. College, high school, and professional basketball coaches use them for applications such as strength and conditioning charts, training goals, court diagrams, and offensive and defensive play charts. EverWhite Whiteboards • 800-824-1482www.everwhiteboards.com Circle No. 513

ramp up yOur practicesSimplicity and dependability best describe the 6000 Series Gun. It zips out passes

from 15 to 35 feet and will throw to one spot or rotate to different spots around the perimeter. The optional computerized scoreboard displays “makes,” total shots,

and shooting percentage. The fast-paced workout forces players to use a proper arc while

shooting game shots at game spots at game speed. This product is protected by a five-year warranty. Shoot-A-Way • 800-294-4654www.shootaway.com Circle No. 530

it hits the spOtSpot-to-spot programming and easy setup combine with consistency and

dependability to produce the all-new 8000 Series Gun. Workouts can now be controlled by remote, and coaches have the ability to specify shooting location and

number of shots per spot. The “challenge” mode requires players to make shots before moving. Player accountability is enhanced with the optional ticket printer and the ability to upload sessions to a computer. Shoot-A-Way • 800-294-4654www.shootaway.com Circle No. 529

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switch tO Dr. DishWhile others may be training with

shooting machines stationed under the basket, Dr. Dish is maximizing your investment by training your perimeter shooters, your bigs with

post-entry passes and your rebounders with programmed missed shots. Add

trajectory control (bounce, chest and lob), full-court mobility, 45 pre-loaded drills (available to view on AirborneAthletics.com) with laminated drill chart and you’re starting to understand the Airborne difference. Remote controlled, battery operated, touch controls for tempo, rotation and ball speed. Airborne Athletics Inc.• 888-887-7453 www.AirborneAthletics.com Circle No. 536

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Easy to opEratESpalding Main Court Portable Backstops are recommended for the highest level of competition. One person can easily operate the backstop without hydraulics or electric motors. The standard backstop is equipped with a SuperGlass Pro Backboard, Slam-Dunk Precision 180 Goal, and E-Z Bolt Backboard Padding. Spalding is the official backstop of the NBA, basketball equipment supplier to the NFHS, and the backstop and backboard supplier to the NCAA men’s and women’s Final Four.Spalding • 800-435-3865www.spaldingequipment.com Circle No. 518

Basketball Facilities

a smart UpgradE packagEReplace old backboards and rims with a regulation 42” x 72” x 1/2” tempered glass backboard with bolt-on padding and a competition breakaway rim. Pre-installed mounting brackets in the board

easily affix to your existing fan-shaped or rectangular backboard mounting points. All stress from the rim is absorbed by the mounting bracket, and the backboard comes with a lifetime warranty. Consider adding the industry’s only height adjuster with a 10-year warranty to allow stable rim height adjustment from eight to 10 feet. Institutional Basketball Systems • 877-272-5430www.institutionalbasketballsystems.com Circle No. 500

a classIc addItIonSchelde Sports has expanded its line of custom graphic scoring tables with the recent introduction of its new backlit model. Custom team graphics are printed on a durable, translucent substrate, and protected by

unbreakable clear polycarbonate for long-lasting, vibrant images. Scoring tables are fully padded, are easily moved with built-in casters, and fold up for easy storage. Custom lettering is available on side pads. Design assistance is available; the structure carries a five-year limited warranty.Schelde North America • 888-724-3533www.ScheldeSports.com Circle No. 501

an ExcEllEnt motIvatorAthletic record boards are effective tools for motivating your athletes in basketball, track, football, volleyball, baseball, swimming, soccer, powerlifting, wrestling, golf, tennis, and softball. Visit Austin Plastics online to view examples of record boards for all these sports. The company’s boards are available with engraved record

nameplates, or you can print your own using perforated card stock and a printing program supplied by the company. The boards are very durable and lightweight for easy installation. Custom boards are available. Austin Plastics & Supply • 800-290-1025www.athleticrecordboards.com Circle No. 502

FInal FoUr QUalItySpalding is an industry leader in athletic equipment, and manufactures high-quality basketball products for professional, collegiate, high school, and recreational use. The Slam-Dunk Precision 180 Goal is a high-performance goal with 180-degree

flex action, and an adjustable reflex mechanism to break away under stress. It meets all professional and NCAA specifications, and includes an anti-whip net and mounting hardware. The Slam-Dunk Precision 180 Goal, which comes with a seven-year warranty, is the official goal of the 2011 NCAA Final Four for both men and women.Spalding • 800-435-3865www.spaldingequipment.com Circle No. 503

BEttEr dEsIgnWith its patented Spring Assisted Mechanism technology, Schelde SAM™ portable goals are a world leader, with 5,000 goals in use in 111 countries. Available in 8’ and 10’8” extensions, every detail of its steel superstructure has been refined to provide greater rigidity, simplicity, and strength. New features include Quick-Set™ goal height adjustment, a spring-activated locking mechanism (for the easiest setup ever), and a new power beam design. With improved engineering, SAM™ continues to raise the world standard for quality and innovative design.Schelde North America • 888-724-3533www.ScheldeSports.com Circle No. 506

Won’t crack UndEr prEssUrEBison’s Unbreakable “XL” Competition Glass Boards are among the finest available, and have been the choice for schools, YMCAs, rec centers, and other facilitiesfor more than 20 years. “XL” boards have a built-in support structure which absorbs over 98 percent of the stress from contact without transferring it to the glass. Bison is so confident of their backboards’ durability that the company offers a $250 installation reimbursement in addition to an unconditional replacement warranty. Bison “XL” goals include standard and conversion 42-inch and 48-inch backboards that are pre-drilled for DuraSkin backboard padding.Bison, Inc. • 800-247-7668www.bisoninc.com Circle No. 504

gEt yoUr mEssagE acrossThe Modstar A Frame sign system from BigSigns.com is great for displaying sponsor advertisements or stadium graphics on any sport’s courtside, sideline, or end zone. Graphics are digitally printed to premium Tru-Satin banner material, using special matte UV fade-resistant inks that reduce sunlight glare and add longevity to the graphics. Modstar is collision-safe because it’s made with coroplast that gives and collapses when struck and then pops right back into place. Each section—34 inches high by four feet wide—can stand alone or be linked together in four-foot increments to create any size sign you desire.BigSigns.com • 800-790-7611 www.bigsigns.com Circle No. 505

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524. . . Active Ankle (Excel lace-up brace) . . . . . . 43

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516. . . Wilson (game basketballs) . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

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Create Lasting MeMoriesHundreds of schools across the country have chosen Registry for Excellence customized pewter plates for their award needs. They are designed specifically for an event, and can be created to hold meaningful achievement medallions or include custom engraving. All plates are

sold directly from the factory, and are made in the USA. Registry for Excellence plates are perfect for championship teams, an MVP, a scholar athlete, donor recognition, hall of fame honorees, or to commemorate a special event. Plates are available in two sizes — 7¼” and 10” — and each plate is attractively packaged in an elegant black felt gift box. Registry for Excellence • 800-395-3551, ext. 490www.Reg4ex.com Circle No. 521

speed up your reCoveryCho-Pat’s Calf Compression Sleeve combines warmth, compression, and reinforcement to help reduce pain and discomfort and enhance recovery and healing. The sleeve, which comes in white and black, helps to maintain body warmth, improve blood circulation, and give support to the calf — all of which play a role

in recovery. The four-way stretch knit material contours anatomically for maximum fit, comfort, and effectiveness. The material is breathable and facilitates the movement of moisture away from the skin. The American-made sleeve does not contain neoprene or latex, and is available in three sizes to provide more specific and effectual results.Cho-Pat • 800-221-1601www.cho-pat.com Circle No. 522

a BoLd stateMentFeather flags from BigSigns.com are one of the most innovative and stylish ways to advertise and draw attention to your athletic event indoors or outdoors. They require little maintenance and, with their unique shape, can make a bold statement. Bigsigns.com’s feather flags come in three sizes and are available with either a pole and spike for soft ground placement or a jug base for hard-ground showcasing. These flags are made from a wrap-knitted polyester and are designed to withstand nature’s worst elements, and can be designed with a variety of fonts, graphics, borders, special effects, and colors. Feather flags are sure to make a lasting impression, and add a unique touch to an event.BigSigns.com • 800-790-7611www.bigsigns.com Circle No. 526

Quote and Buy onLineSave time by purchasing insurance online for sports camps, clinics, teams, leagues, associations, instructors, and events. K&K’s coverage options include general

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the Best of Both WorLdsThe Excel lace-up brace provides the comfort and mobility of a lace-up with the support and security of a tape job. With its circumferential strap to help stabilize the brace and a lacing system that tightens all the way around, the Excel provides a conforming and

comfortable fit. It is lined with neoprene for maximum comfort and fit, with nylon eyelets to reduce pressure points. Active Ankle Systems, Inc. • 800-800-2896www.activeankle.com Circle No. 524

sMooth MovesThe Volt ankle brace is engineered to include the latest carbon-fiber technology. The polypropylene shell is reinforced with carbon fiber —the same high-performance material used in racing cars and bicycles. It also features a molded bearing-design performance hinge for smoother range of motion, strengthening ribs for a thinner profile, and fabric-backed EVA foam pads for durability and comfort. Active Ankle Systems, Inc. • 800-800-2896www.activeankle.com Circle No. 525

enhanCes reCoveryCramer Products’ ESS Calf Compression Sleeves are made with true medical-grade compression to provide proven improvement in circulation. Improved circulation allows for faster recovery through improved removal of lactic acid from the muscles. The sleeve’s unique knitted design allows for lightweight fit and exceptional stretch and comfort. Compression provides a performance enhancement benefit as well as mild muscular support. Call or go online to learn more.Cramer Products • 800-345-2231www.cramersportsmed.com Circle No. 519

aWards and giftsSMi Awards has a full line of custom logo watches, plaques, rings, gift sets, and more. They’re perfect for senior/letter-winner awards, championship teams, staff gifts, golf outings, and donor gifts. The company offers significant pricing incentives for annual purchases and will work with you on an unparalleled personal level to provide the service you expect and deserve. If you’re looking for a reliable awards supplier with quality products, outstanding prices, and more than 20 years of business experience, contact SMi Awards or visit the Web site. SMi Awards • 800-326-8463www.smiawards.com Circle No. 532

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