The Role Of Coach Influence In College

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Your focus is on the coaches is very important. For student-athletes, coaches are probably the strongest faculty influence in college. My dad is a high school teacher and football coach and the time coaches and players spend in practice, film and lifting weights is more than they have at home or with friends. They even had a meeting this week about NCAA requirements for any players thinking about sports in college. Your focus on getting coaches to work with the CDC is getting faculty directly involved in the process. The social life of the players does revolve around sports. Coaches should consider requiring incoming freshman to attend informal meetings at the CDC and the coaches should go with the players. Technology could be used more wisely

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