Suspensions After A High School Football Brawl

            The athletic management website writes and article on how a Mississippi high school football team loses most of its players in a brawl during a game. This causes a lot of suspensions for the team which makes them ineligible for the playoffs and also leaves them with not enough players to play the rest of the season. The athletic director at the high school was very upset with the situation and had couldn’t do anything about it except for forfeit the rest of the season and give out suspension to the students that deserved it.

            This is a horrible situation. I don’t know why any student would fight during a game. I know some times things may get heated on the field and you may not like the other team. But there is a way to take care of that situation on the field. The team handled this situation in the very worst way that they could of.

            I feel bad for the athletic director and coaches that were put in this situation. They had nothing they could do about this except for suspend the kids and forfeit the rest of the season. It really sucks that they had to give up their season because of a few players causing an all-out brawl at their football game. They did handle this the right way though, but no one wants to be put in this situation.

Team, Athletic Management. "Brawl Aftermath." 2nd October 2012. Athletic Management. 3 December 2012 <http://www.athleticmanagement.com/headlines.php>.

ECU Deals With Vandalism At Their Field

In the article "ECU student charged with “unacceptable and disappointing” Dowdy-Ficklen vandalism." Friedlander talks about how the ECU field was tore apart by a freshman at their school. The student broke in and stole some equipment and started doing donuts on the field, causing a lot of damage to the field and making a lot of holes in the field. The way they caught the student was by finding his phone on the field that he left while he was vandalizing it. Also they had video evidence of him doing it. This got the student arrested for vandalizing personal property and trespassing. All of this caused the university to go into panic because they had a game that was going to be played in the stadium that week. So they had to get some money they had put away for a crises and insurance which helped get the field up to shape to make it playable by game day.    

            This is a horrible situation that they were put in and I don’t know why a student would do this to their university, just to have fun. I think the situation was handled well and the student got the punishment that he deserved. Also I think the athletic department did a great job in getting the field up to shape for game day. That was the most important situation, and they handled it well. These types of situations happens a lot and you need to have some type of plan that will get things back to normal in a short period of time and ECU did a great job in doing this.

Friedlander, Brett. "ECU student charged with “unacceptable and disappointing” Dowdy-Ficklen vandalism." 23 October 2012. Star News Online. 3 December 2012 <http://acc.blogs.starnewsonline.com/32719/ecu-student-charged-with-unacceptable-and-disappointing-dowdy-ficklen-vandalism/?tc=ar>.

Coach Suspended for Outburst

          In the article “Wyoming suspends football coach, fines him $50K for outburst” Ben Frederickson talks about the action the athletic director at Wyoming has to take for his football coaches outburst. The football coach at Wyoming lost a game against Air Force on October 14 and after the game he went up to the Air Force coach and used profanity and acted out of line towards him. This was caught on video tape then was eventually uploaded to the internet in the next couple of days. This put the athletic director in a bad situation. So the first steps he had to make were looking up the contract the coach had with him. While looking this up he looked at the code of conduct that was put on paper. He then saw that these rules were broken. After this he then had to make a decision on what kind of punishment he was going to give the coach. He then did research and found out a usually punishment for this was some type of fine between 40k and 100k, with some type of suspension. So he gave his coach a 50k fine and suspended him for 2 games. The coach was informed by the athletic director 2 days after the incident and was fine with the punishment he got and apologized to everyone he needed to.

            This is a situation that happens a lot in athletics. I think the athletic director handled this very well and settled everything in the right way. He brought up a contract that the coach signed so there would be no reason why the coach could be mad about his fine and suspension. This is a situation that ended up being taking care of very well and smoothly. I think the Wyoming athletic department did a good job on this and should be applauded the way they handled this situation.

Frederickson, Ben. "Wyoming suspends football coach, fines him $50K for outburst." 22 October 2012. Trib Sports. 3 December 2012 <http://trib.com/sports/college/wyoming/wyoming-suspends-football-coach-fines-him-k-for-outburst/article_76c79275-339e-55f8-b335-29b4d0f4e7fe.html>.

Benches And Coaches Are Now Watched In NCAA Basketball

In the article “NCAA Cleaning Up Bench Behavior” by the Athletic Management team they talk about a new rule being put into place for the NCAA basketball teams. The NCAA Basketball committee has put a new rule into effect which can earn a team a technical if the coach or the team’s bench is acting out of line. The athletic management team states that the following rules are being put into place, which will all create a technical foul for the team:

•Comments directed at or referring to any game official that question the integrity of an official (repeated references to the number of fouls called against each team; suggesting an official is "cheating" a team, etc.).

•Profane, vulgar, threatening, or derogatory remarks or personal comments relating to race, ethnicity, religion, gender or sexual orientation directed at or referring to any game official or opposing player/bench personnel.

•Prolonged, negative responses to a call/no-call that are disrespectful or unprofessional, including waving or thrashing the arms in disgust, dramatizing contact by re-enacting the play, or running or jumping "in disbelief" over a call/non-call.

•A negative response to a call/no-call that includes approaching/charging an official in a hostile, aggressive or otherwise threatening manner, emphatically removing one's coat in response to a call/no-call, or throwing equipment or clothing on to the floor.

•Continual criticism during a game regarding the same incident after being warned by an official.

            I think this is a great rule that the NCAA has put into their rule book. These types of incidents happen all the time in the games, and make the coach and team look bad. Also many of the these games are being played on television which makes the team look even worse and the college look bad as well. So this type of rule may help clean up all of this mess. Also the referees don’t deserve all of the verbal punishment they get from the coaches; they are just doing their jobs and calling the best game that they possibly can. I hope this rule helps clean the game up because no one likes seeing the bench and coach acting a fool out on the court.

Team, Athletic Management. "NCAA Cleaning Up Bench Behavior ." 2 November 2012. Athletic Management. 1 December 2012 <http://www.athleticmanagement.com/2012/11/09/sideline_behavior_crack_down/index.php>.

MLB Rule Keeps Athletes In College

The Athletic Management writers wrote a great article recently, explaining the new rule the MLB has put into place to keep college kids in college longer. The rule that was created only allowed a certain amount of money that teams have to offer as bonuses to their first 10 round draft picks. Then everyone after the first 10 rounds was only able to be offered a bonus of 100 thousand or less. They think this will keep the athletes in college longer. Which will benefit the college teams by not losing as many players each year, and it will benefit the players by staying in college and getting their college degrees.

This rule that is being put into place will keep kids in college longer, but it may be taking away from the amount of money that they deserve for all the hard work they have been putting in. Almost every college athlete’s dreams are to make it to the big leagues and make money. So why are they taking this away from them?

I don’t like this rule as much. I have a lot of friends who are college baseball players and not one of them was happy with this rule. The only thing this benefits is the college teams. They will keep players longer and they will be better, but so will the other college baseball teams. So the only thing that is becoming better is the overall play of college baseball. I understand that a degree is important in getting a good job and everything. But isn’t MLB baseball one of the highest paying jobs out there. The reason kids leave college early to go play in the pros is determined on how much money they are offered. It is up to the athletes and families to decide whether the amount of money they are offered are good enough for them to leave college or not.

I think this rule is needs to be justified a little bit. The athletes don’t need to be taking advantaged of and have money taking away from them just because they want to raise the overall level of completion of college baseball.

Team, Athletic Management. "New MLB Rules May Help Colleges." 16 November 2012. Athletic Management. 2012 December 2012 <New MLB Rules May Help Colleges>.

The Student Section

                In every sports contest there are plenty of fans that come and watch. Then there is the student section. They are very loud, rowdy, and are screaming at the top of their lungs the whole entire game. Some of the things they do are just to support their team, and some of it is to get into the heads of the other team. Laura Ulrich writes an article on dealing with the students at high schools harassing other teams with body paint or signs, and talks about how alcohol may be the cause of this.

                This is a big problem that high school administrators and athletic directors have to deal with at their games. Many schools have policies that the students must abide by or they will be kicked out of the game. They also have a drinking policy which is not allowed at the tailgates.

                I think this problem is something that can be solved very easily. The first thing you need to deal with is the drinking at the tailgates of high school games.  No student in high school is 21 and old enough to drink, so it shouldn’t happen, but it does. All high school facilities should have a policy where there is absolutely no alcohol allowed on its grounds. Even the parents shouldn’t be allowed to drink either. It should be treated just like school. You don’t want a parent visiting the school to bring a beer inside, so why allow it at the high school sporting events. Next is you need to have administrators  all around the student section and if anything inappropriate is being said that person should be taken out and the other students will see there is strict policy.

                I don’t think the student section should be any quieter or not be as excited as they are, but there is an appropriate and right way to do it, which can still be fun.

 

Ulrich, Laura. “Battling Booze and Body Paint.” Athletic Management (2007)

http://www.athleticmanagement.com/2007/10/29/battling_booze_and_body_paint/index.php

Facilities Expand Throughout Neighborhoods

            Many schools these days want to expand and upgrade their athletic facilities. There are many of repercussions to doing this though. First it is going to cost a lot of money. The second thing is you have to choose where in your county or city you are going to build the new facilities.

            When getting the money to build a new facility, it has to come from someone. It can come from your boosters. It can come from the people of the town. Or it can come from an outside source. When trying to pass a proposal of a new facility to the people, the town there usually has some type of vote that the city has to have to decide. That way they have a say if they want this to happen and know what will happen to the town if it goes through. They also will know how much money they will be spending if any at all.

            This brings me to my second point on where will the facility be built in the city. Some facilities move into the neighborhoods and people may lose their homes. So the vote that they have may help them have a say in people losing their houses or not.

            This is a great topic that athletic facility supervisors or any facility supervisors may want to think about when wanting to build a new facility. I would also recommend to them to read an article by Kelley Povero called “There Goes the Neighborhood?” which has a lot of interesting situations on this topic.

Kelley, Povero. “There Goes the Neighborhood?” Athletic Management (2007).

http://www.athleticmanagement.com/2007/07/26/there_goes_the_neighborhood/index.php