Head coach and captains meetings

[bigbeardedbryan]

Originally Posted by todd66

NFHS rules: Is the Head Coach required to attend the captain's meeting? If he/she does not attend and sends an assistant coach, the head coach forfeits the right to the coaches box to that assistant? I believe they changed this a few years ago but can not find it in my old information.

In PA, the head coach is required to attend the captain's meeting, and we have been instructed that we are to ensure he or she does attend so that we do not have to explain that the assistant who did attend is the head coach for the night.

This is, of course, coming from the PIAA, which insists that during your head coach and captain meeting, you read their Sportsmanship Statement verbatim from a provided card. Our district interpreter has made it clear that anyone memorizing all four sentences and not producing said card at the meeting will be penalized in evaluations. One of my favorite partners leaves reading glasses at the scorer's table expressly for this purpose.