Back in December of 2015, CBS Sports’ Gary Parrish penned an article, referring to Dave Pilipovich’s job as the head basketball coach at Air Force as the “toughest in all of college basketball”.
In a nutshell, Parrish couldn’t have been more accurate, as he outlined “medical disqualifications” and other barriers that were daily occurrences for Pilipovich and his staff, but would seemingly be foreign to any other Division I coach. Parrish was simply explaining all the roadblocks that Pilipovich must go through in trying to land prospective student-athletes, which dealt with just about everything from an academy height restriction on players (a rule that effects basketball more commonly than any other sport) to serious academic and lifestyle requirements.