What do coaches do in the off season?

[LIONS90045]

This is not a joke. I am curious what occupies the basketball coaches time in the off season. NCAA limited coaches contact with recruits in April, I saw. Now as we move into the summer, and I know they are not slackers, how do the coaches spend their time? Can they work with players informally in Burns Rec? Are they out there visiting future recruits (not until 2011 unless unexpected happens)? Are they working on their tans? (Just a joke.) Visiting Australia? Africa? Junior college prospects? Whatever? I am curious.

[LIONS90045]

Thanks for your response alert2 - you are probably correct. And yes, they need to prepare for the unexpected. I don't know if anyone noticed but the entire WCC had a good recruiting year - adding size and depth almost across the board - Pepperdine may be an outlier here. So, despite our improved team, this will be a very competitive season.
Back to what the coaches do, can the coaches work with the team at all - other than perhaps weight training? And with no games scheduled, how do they look at future talent unless there are pick up games somewhere to witness. I knoll Coach Scholl has Africa connections from his time there - which brought us Kalipinde, so I threw that into the hopper. And it is winter in Australia, so perhaps the basketball game is afoot there now. Although it seems we lost our Australian connection to Saint Marys - can't Knight and Martin send a few select names through to LMU?
I suppose they can also work on improving their playbook if there is such a thing in college basketball.

[lmutex]

+1 alert2.

I also hope that they spend a little more time with their families, and away from Gersten.

[LIONS90045]

Here is one thing coaches do in the off season - not involving LMU however@

USA - USA Basketball announces six court coaches for men's national team trials
28/05/2009


COLORADO SPRINGS (FIBA U19 World Championship) - Mike Anderson of the University of Missouri, John Beilein of the University of Michigan, Johnny Estelle of Navarro College, Mark Few of Gonzaga University, Alan Magnani of Iowa Wesleyan College and Herb Sendek of Arizona State University have been selected to serve as court coaches for the 2009 USA Basketball Men's U19 World Championship and World University Games team trials, USA Basketball today announced.

The USA trials will be held June 16-18 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. The selected court coaches will work with the approximately 40 athletes vying for spots on the 2009 USA U19 World Championship and 2009 USA World University Games teams.

The 2009 FIBA U19 World Championship for Men will be held July 2-12 in Auckland, New Zealand, featuring 16 national teams comprised of athletes 19-years-old or younger (born on or after Jan. 1, 1990). Included in the field of nations are: Angola, Argentina, Australia, Canada, Croatia, Egypt, France, Greece, Iran, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Spain, Syria and the USA.

University of Pittsburgh head coach Jamie Dixon was named head coach of the 2009 U19 World Championship Team. Chris Lowery of Southern Illinois University and Matt Painter of Purdue University will serve as assistant coaches.

The World University Games is a multi-sport competition organized by the International University Sports Federation and held every two years. The 2009 men's basketball competition will take place July 2-12 in Belgrade, Serbia. Participants must be between 17 and 24 years old and either a current college student or have attended a college or university within the past year.

Tabbed as head coach of the 2009 World University Games Team was Wisconsin University's Bo Ryan.

newzealand2009.fiba.com/pages/eng/fe/09/u19men/news/p/nid/30326/article.html

Warning FIBA Website is SLOOOW and may be hazardous to your health!

[LIONS90045]

Here is another activity - basketball camps at LMU - not the Kobe one.

www.lmulions.com/camps/boys-basketball.html

[titanczar]

Coaches also run a "team" camp where HS and club teams play against each other. I believe the team camp is either this week or next week. Coaches will usually invite teams with players they are recruiting.

If anybody gets a chance to go to the team camp, it is easy to tell what players/team the coaches are interested in.

That link is for a camp for kids, which is usually a huge money maker for the school and the third assistant coach, who gets a cut of the money made.

[LIONS90045]

I am reading about commits for the future following sessions at "Elite" summer camps at various schools. The most recent was Tim Hardaway, Jr. commiting to Michigan. Does LMU have a summer camp with our coaches? (Not the Kobe deal.)

[ironlions]

Yes- last year that is how we landed Kevin Young.

[LIONS90045]

Good to hear!