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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 2124329, member: 716"]
I'm not a nutritionist and don't pay a ton of attention to the technical aspect of what those people do, but in my couple years of experience with a basketball program it looked like emphasis was on feeding the thin guys frequently. A dozen small meals a day, anything that's not junk food, lots of protein bars and shakes.

The hotel buffet thing rang true with my experience. I remember one day before our conference tournament game the coach flipped out because the hotel staff put out a chafing dish of alfredo along with the red sauce for the pregame meal. He was no nutritionist, but he didn't want alfredo in the guys' diets. (Like the burgers for Marquette players, the banned food was exactly what the team seemed to like best.)

Interesting that Marquette replaced a "greasy spoon" for road trips with a more customized arrangement with Whole Foods. We always went with the former, a little collegetown deli that would take the team's order the day before a trip. One more reason I'm quick to say Napier was FOS: at our little low-major D-I school, players (and staff) were encouraged to go wild with the traveling food orders. Not uncommon for someone to order 3 or 4 calzones for himself. Nutritionally it's crap, but that'll leave a guy with food to graze on for a long time. Nobody's going hungry.
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