In June, the NCAA Division I Council approved a waiver to allow two non-coaching staff members to conduct instructional, on-court activities during the summer access period. Today, the council extended that waiver through the 2021-22 men’s and women’s basketball seasons. For Kentucky, this means Bruiser Flint will be able to help out in practice. When Orlando Antigua and Chin Coleman joined the staff in May, Flint shifted from an on-court assistant coaching position to associate to the head coach, a role previously occupied by Tony Barbee.
The council originally made the change in part due to “the increased need for countable coaches to be recruiting after a dead period that lasted more than a year.