Game Experience Survey for Conference Officials, Athletics Directors and Coaches
Game Experience Survey for Conference Officials, Athletics Directors and Coaches
Identify the strengths and weaknesses of the game management and competitive experience at your Conference institutions by surveying officials, athletic directors and coaches.
Use the game management expectations and conduct in competition standards below to create your own questions or copy and paste any of the sample questions provided in this document into your own survey.
III. Event Management Expectations (NAC, Sec. III)
It is a policy of the NAIA for every institution to demonstrate a commitment to conduct in competition consistent with the NAIA’s core values for character-driven athletics. The following standards shall be enforced:
1. After every contest, teams and coaches will stay on the playing surface and shake hands with opponents.
2. Profanity is unacceptable in NAIA competition.
a. PA announcement must be made before the invocation/national anthem or player introductions.
b. PA announcement must be made to give a warning for profanity/vulgarity when deemed appropriate by the event
manager.
3. Support groups (e.g. bands, cheerleaders, etc.) must be placed as far away from the opponent’s bench as possible.
4. Making personal attacks regarding physical characteristics of a player, coach or official is unacceptable and must be
addressed by the crowd control manager.
5. Every institution must assign a person who is solely responsible for crowd control at contests in basketball, football, soccer
and other sports as deemed necessary.
Conduct in Competition Standards
Ejection reports must be completed by the NAIA game official ejecting a student-athlete or coach and the athletics director of the
ejected student-athlete or coach. The form must be submitted to the NAIA within 48 hours after the completion of the contest.
(NAC, Sec. IV)
It is the responsibility of the offending institution to provide written notification to its commissioner of any incidents of misconduct
during a contest, including ejections from a contest, within five days of the incident. (NAIA Bylaws Art VI, Sec. B, #7)
If a selection of sports/genders is provided, one survey can suffice for all sports. Answers can be open-ended, yes or no or multiple choice. The suggested rating scale for multiple choice answers is excellent, good, average, poor. Use an on-line survey, like Survey Monkey, to house your survey and analyze the results.
At the end of the sports season, send the survey link to all Conference officials, Athletics Directors and coaches. Plan to share your results with member institutions, conference commissioners and the NAIA .
Sample questions for your Conference Game Experience Survey for Officials
Sport: Football Soccer Cross Country Volleyball Basketball Swimming and Diving Wrestling
Indoor Track and Field Softball Baseball Outdoor Track and Field Golf Tennis
Gender: Men’s Women’s
Except as noted, list member institutions under each question and provide the appropriate answer format. See example below.
Q: Were you met upon arrival at the institution?
A:Institution AYes No
Institution BYes No
Institution CYes No
Q: Was the room provided close enough to the competition site?
Q: Was the room large enough?
Q: Were you provided an escort and refreshments at halftime?
Q: Were you escorted from the floor/field following the game?
Q: The score table was:
A: List institutions and provide for a range of answers from excellent to poor.
Q: If you answered poor to last question, please indicate why:
A: Provide for open-ended answer
Q: Conduct of coach:
A: List institutions and provide for a range of answers from excellent to poor.
Q: Conduct of Student Athletes:
A: List institutions and provide for a range of answers from excellent to poor.
Q: If you answered poor on conduct for any coach or student athlete, list the gender and reason:
A: Provide for open-ended answer
Q: Were you paid theday of contest or within reasonable timeframe (10 days)?
Sample questions for your Game Experience Survey for Athletics Directors.
Sport: Football Soccer Cross Country Volleyball Basketball Swimming and Diving Wrestling
Indoor Track and Field Softball Baseball Outdoor Track and Field Golf Tennis
Gender: Men’s Women’s
Q: How would you rate (Conference assigner name here) in the following areas?
A: Preseason Communication (Rateexcellent to poor)
Follow up to questions you had during the season (Rateexcellent to poor)
Overall Professionalism (Rate excellent to poor)
Quality of Officials (Rateexcellent to poor)
Q: Was an individual assigned to crowd control at all basketball, football and soccer contests at your institution?
A: Yes or No
For the question belowlist member institutions under each question and provide the appropriate answer format as shown.
Q: Rate the conduct of the other conference coaches/players:
A: Institution ARate excellent to poor.
Institution BRate excellent to poor.
Institution CRate excellent to poor.
Sample questions for your Game Experience Survey for Coaches
Sport: Football Soccer Cross Country Volleyball Basketball Swimming and Diving Wrestling
Indoor Track and Field Softball Baseball Outdoor Track and Field Golf Tennis
Gender: Men’s Women’s
Except as noted, list institutions under each question and provide the appropriate answer format. See example below.
Q: Was an individual assigned to be responsible for crowd control as deemed necessary?
A: Institution AYes or No
Institution BYes or No
Institution CYes or No
Q: Coaches and athletes remained on the playing surface:
Q: Coaches and athletes shook hands:
Q: Coaches and athletes refrained from the use of profanity:
Q: Support groups were kept away from the opponent’s bench:
Q: When on the road, were you greeted and treated well by staff at:
Q: Rate each Conference member on how they exchanged and uploaded film:
Q: How would you rate (Conference Assigner name here) in the following areas?
A: Preseason Communication (Rate excellent to poor)
Follow up to questions you had during the season (Rateexcellent to poor)
Overall Professionalism (Rate excellent to poor)
Quality of Officials (Rateexcellent to poor)
Q: Other than your own institution, where is your favorite place to play in the conference?
A: Provide a list of Conference member institutions with check boxes
Q: Why?
A: Provide for an open-ended answer
Q: Where is your least favorite place to play in the conference?
A: Provide a list of Conference member institutions with check boxes
Q: Why?
A: Provide for an open-ended answer
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