NorCal high school announces coverage rules

HanSenSE · Aug 18, 2023

I'm thinking of those nights when you get one of those games that goes on forever. Been a couple of times where I'd grab a coach or star of the game out of the handshake line, get my quotes and be out of there before the band fired up the alma mater. Do I have to wait 15 minutes now? Eff that, will skip quotes as much as I hate to.

JimmyHoward33 · Aug 18, 2023

There’s nothihg standard about contacting a PR flak to set up an interview with a high school coach. That is ridiculous.

Shropshire Slasher · Aug 19, 2023

I was working on a scoop once and the HS flak decided to send out a presser to all the TV stations before we went to print on it. I raised enough hell about it that that got stopped.

Regan MacNeil · Aug 19, 2023

BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo said:
Well, when you put it that way.

Look at it this way, I consider it a good thing it didn’t occur to you why it would be a problem. But some (a lot?) of us had that guy we either side-eyed directly or heard rumors about. Probably one in every coverage area.

BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo · Aug 19, 2023

Regan MacNeil said:
Look at it this way, I consider it a good thing it didn’t occur to you why it would be a problem. But some (a lot?) of us had that guy we either side-eyed directly or heard rumors about. Probably one in every coverage area.

This is quite fair and I've definitely heard these tales where I am now. I'm going to retract my original statement instead of just doubling down for the sake of doubling down. I'm mature now!

Equalizer · Aug 19, 2023

A few months after my position as sports editor was eliminated, and I was out of a job, I found out from a coach in the area that his female athletes requested he be present when one of my writers interviewed them. "He's a weird motherf--ker," one of them told the coach. I asked him why he had never said something to me before and he said, "I wasn't really sure how to bring it up. Now that you're not there, I can tell you that." I asked another coach in the area about it when I saw him and he said, "Oh yeah, my players hate him. He creeps them out."

He's still employed there.