Coaches and Players are expected to conduct themselves in a positive, sportsmanlike manner at all times. To ensure these issues are properly addressed, the TSSAA Board of Control is requiring a Game Administrator be appointed by the Principal of each host school to supervise every varsity contest in football, basketball, girls soccer and soccer. The Game Administrator must be someone other than the participating coaches. Ideally, it should be a principal, athletic director or another school administrator but it may be the principal’s designee due to staff commitments.
Please continue to focus on fan control at athletic contests. At each pre-season meeting, a discussion of appropriate behavior and expectations of parents should be discussed. Administrators and coaches must let their parents know that the school is held responsible for the conduct of their fans whether home or away. The results on the school and student-athletes could be devastating and totally unfair to those student-athletes who work hard each day to participate in athletics.