IMPORTANT REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL ACTION:
EFFECTIVE FOR THE 2004-05 SCHOOL YEAR,
CONSEQUENCES WILL BE EMPLOYED FOR COACHES
IN VIOLATION OF RULES MEETING ATTENDANCE/TESTING
MHSAA Regulation II, Section 8 (B) -- Each head coach of a
varsity team in a sport under MHSAA jurisdiction shall attend the MHSAA rules
meeting for that sport for the current school year if meetings are held.
If the head coach does not attend the meetings, an administrator or designee
from that coach’s school shall attend.
Any head coach who misses the meeting for any reason shall answer correctly
70 percent of the questions on the rules examination for the sport.
***NEW FOR 2004-05***
A head coach who fails to attend a rules meeting and then after two
mailings from the MHSAA does not submit to the MHSAA examination results
with at least 70 percent of the questions answered correctly, shall be
prohibited from coaching in that season's MHSAA tournament for the sport
involved and shall not be present at the facility where the MHSAA tournament
involving that coach's team is being held. An administrator of that school
shall be present with supervisory capacity over the school's competitors.