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Reminders:
  • Proposal here is in it's original form as it was submitted. This is one proposal and thus one vote
  • Executive Board - Voted the following way:
    1. 11 Yes, 0 No - Board Yes

    Notes: The board agreed that this is a change that needs to be made. For far too long we have allowed coaches to come to the table and disrupt match flows for officials judgement calls with 0 consequences. This proposal puts in concrete wording of how these situations will be handled. This proposal seemingly is geared towards the State tournaments, but it is certainly applicable for regular season tournaments as well.

    This proposal was part of the group of proposals that were not presented at the previous years State Body meeting that should have been. It was unanimously supported by the previous board. The current board also unanimously supports this.

    *This proposal appears in the document: 2024 Bylaw Changes.pdf
  • 50%+1 State Body votes to pass this proposal


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Coaches Misconduct - Currently the NFHS provides for Penalties for coaches misconduct however they aren't applicable as is for kids wrestling. My proposal is to provide a rules modification as follows:

Rules modification recommendation: "Removal of head coach from premises immediately on second penalty and deduct 2 team points. Removal is for the remainder of the day."

Justification: Currently coaches continuously going to the table to question the official adds unnecessary time to the event as well as interrupts the flow of the tournament. In addition we need better continuity with NFHS rules regarding coaches behavior.

Coach credentials will be removed for the event and if flagrant they will be removed from the building. This is a state tournament operations method which will be refined with use of the event management system and credentials such as bands with hole punching for a warning and removal if a second offense. The idea is to move towards the same experience the kids will get in HS which doesn't permit frequent visits to the scoring table without consequence.

Joe Knecht