Coach-Media Relations

It is important that communication between coaches and the media reflects and promotes high standards of sportsmanship, integrity, and ethics.

• Coaches must not publicly criticize any game official or permit anyone under their supervision to criticize game officials.
• Coaches should cooperate with the media in the interpretation and clarification of rules and/or other aspects of the game, but not make critical comments about specific decisions of game officials.
• Coaches must make an effort, in their communication with the media, to stress positive displays of sportsmanship demonstrated by the student athletes, coaches, fans, spectators, and the schools involved in the competition.
• Any coach found in non-compliance with the above will be subject to penalties determined by the Committee on Sportsmanship, Integrity, and Ethics.