When Chris Ash was hired as a graduate assistant at his alma mater, Drake, in 1997, he had nowhere to live, so unbeknownst to his head coach, he set up shop in the team's field house.
It was sparse living -- little more than lockers and offices and equipment. There was no TV, so at the end of a long day, he'd retire to the office of head coach Rob Ash, no relation, and crack open clinic manuals on coaching. He lived there for about a month, and in that time he consumed more than a thousand articles.