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| Topic: | To establish and Ethics Committee to help deal with various ethical problems, such as stacking. Warren Block has volunteered to be the coordinator for this. |
| Other Coaches Opinions | |
| NAME | EMAIL ADDRESS | COMMENTS |
| Gail Masteller | gail_masteller@chartermi.net | Coaches, I'd like to mention 3 issues I think you might want to review before next season. 1) The stacking rule is routinely ignored as written. When a player is injured, teams routinely move in a sub to that position, regardless of how that affects the 'ranked' lineup and that is done to help the other flights keep good records for seeding purposes. I think the coaches should either rewrite the rule to reflect current practices or find a way to enforce it as written (forfeiting matches if the stacking rule is broken) 2) Weather. I think the rules state teams need to wait out bad weather if they both show up for a match. With the prevalance of web site radar information, I think coaches should be allowed to postpone matches based on forecasts. In practice, many do. Again, a rule change might be needed. 3) Publishing tournament information. Is there any reason that site locations and flights scheduled at particular sites can't be communicated to parents. In practice, parents only see coaches at matches, where the coaches are busy, and hate to bother a coach with a logistical question about time and place for an upcoming tournament. And when a parent does ask, the coach rarely has the full information at his fingertips. It would be extremely helpful if the coach's organization made it a policy to ask coaches to either post upcoming tournament plans on a website or to distribute the information via email or handout to the parents. I think it can be communicated that last minute changes will occur. |
| Callander | bcallander@hackettcc.org | Great idea. It appears as though there are rules, many of which are specific, but they are not enforced. Those coaches tht violate them, do so time and time again. Stacking , of course, is the big one. Another issue is players who continually cheat. Playe |
| Keith Bernacki | keithbernacki@hotmail.com | Ethics Committee - good idea - Current coaches on committee - bad idea. |
| Patti S. Morris | patricia.morris@avondale.k12.mi.us | I strongly believe that there is a tremendous need for an Ethics Committee. |
| Jeff Miner | jminer@bas.k12.mi.us | Like the idea of an ethics committee - any bad apples would have to stay on their toes. Might also be a vehicle for resolving disputes among coaches at times. |
| Mike McGinnis | mcginnism4030@hotmail.com | Unfortunately this is an area that needs to monitored and enforced. Hopefully by forming this committee they will have nothing to do. |
| Lin Ware | thewarehouse@comcast.net | Yes to an ethics committee. Coaching a high school team is about more than just winning. Its about teaching fair play in tennis and in life. |
| Tim Coleman | timcole@resa.net | I am in favor of having an ethics committee. |
