Women’s soccer coaches meeting minutesJanuary 8, 2013

PAC-12 CONFERENCE

WOMEN’S SOCCER COACHES MEETING MINUTES

10:00 a.m.–2:27 p.m.January 8, 2013San Francisco, CA

In attendance:Rocky LaRose (chair), Tony Amato, Arizona; Kevin Boyd, Arizona State; Neil McGuirre, California; Danny Sanchez, Colorado; Kat Mertz, Oregon; Linus Rhode, Oregon State; Paul Ratcliff, Stanford; B.J. Snow, UCLA; Ali Khosroshahin, USC; Rich Manning, Utah; LesleGallimore, Washington; KeidaneMcAlpine, Washington State; Kristine Berndt, Alex Kaufman, Robert Mullings, Pac-12.

Gary Stevenson, Bob Keyser, Dustin Rocke, Will O’Toole and Araceli Ortiz from Pac-12 Enterprises joined the group for a portion of the meeting.

  1. Approval of minutes of January 10, 2012, meeting

ACTION: The coaches voted (12-0) to approve the minutes of the January 10, 2012 meeting.

  1. Pac-12 Conference Update

Berndt updated about the China Initiative and if anyone is interested in taking a foreign tour to china to contact the Conference office.

Kaufman thanked the group and solicited feedback from a PR perspective. Reminder to send in nominations for all conference throughout the season.

  1. Pac-12 Enterprises Presentation

Gary Stevenson joined the group for this portion of the meeting and provided information about the landscape of the media sports industry and the vision Pac-12 Enterprises has for the company and specific for women’s soccer. He reiterated the network and the digital platform iscontent centric and really relies on the competition the teams are putting on the field. He encouraged the coaches to continue to work to put the best competition on the field.

He also discussed the landscape of our distribution and the state of our distribution as it stands today and the plan to increase to 750 events in the 2013-14 season and 850 in the 2014-2015 season.

Bob Keyser, Araceli Ortiz, Dustin Rocke and Will O’toole joined the group for this portion of the meeting to discuss different issues pertaining to scheduling, productions,

There should be some sort of rotation for the primetime time slots so that women’s soccer doesn’t play second fiddle to volleyball. Coaches want to move to a Thursday/Sunday for the Conference schedule.

They are evaluating on air talent for each sport. Kristen Bredes at Pac-12 Enterprises is the person in charge of talent and is constantly looking for people. Please send any more names to her. She will look at all people suggested.

Some of the producers were much better at contacting the head coaches and talking to them about the needs from a production standpoint. But encouraged them to continue to do that because communication is extremely helpful to know.

The color commentators who did more games were much better at their knowledge level and were getting to know the teams much more. In the non-conference season, its really hard to be able to keep a core group of people because there are so many matches going on at the same time and in different locations.

There were some instances where features were being shown and the action was being missed.

  1. Review of sport regulations
  2. SPR 11-2-f: Pregame Activities

“Unless the coaches of the competing teams mutually agree to a different schedule, the field shall be available for warm-up by the competing teams a minimum of one hour prior to game time (or the first game of a doubleheader) and one half-hour prior to the second game of a doubleheader.”

ACTION: Coaches voted 12-0 to recommend amending SPR 11-2-f as follows: 30 minutes mandate between doubleheaders. Teams will have 30 minute warm-up on the playing field. 12-0

Senior day its important the home team provides a schedule to the visiting team so they are aware of the timeline before the matches.

  1. SPR 11-2-j: Video Exchange

For Conference contests, the host institution shall provide a DVD of the game to the visiting institution. Host institutions shall upload to the Conference server video from the weekend’s matches no later than 5 p.m. the Monday immediately following the matches. All home matches will be uploaded for video evaluation by the Conference coordinator of officials. Only the last non-Conference match before the start of the season shall be made available for download to Conference teams. Once the Conference season has started, any institution may download any game from the server.

Should we even have the video exchange? It’s a bigger hassle than its worth. The Big 12 used dragonfly and the videos are used for scouting.

DragonFly, Hudle, ezXchanges, film exchange –Need to do research on these programs and send recommendations to the soccer coaches to see which program they would like to use moving forward.

Can the institutions that don’t have access to the network on campus, have access online to be able to access the network even a password online.

  1. EzXchanges Feedback

Film exchange is a better company to use for exchange.

  1. SPR 11-3-a: All Conference Team

Gallimoreasked the coaches to be very diligent and look at all the whole picture of the Conference when doing their selections. It really takes homework and asked that they coaches take the time to evaluate the players.

ACTION: the coaches voted 12-0 to recommend adding a Defensive player of the year.

  1. NCAA Committee Update

Rule changes: 1. Way the rule is written should be changed: A minimum must be specified. 2. Move to a 15-minute overtime especially in the NCAA championship.

Moving toward the FIFA rules.

  1. Officiating
  2. Officiating Update

Huntgave an overview of the season and the role that she plays as an advocate of the coaches and recruiting quality officials. She reviewed her processes of how she recruits her officials.

If coaches are going to be held to consequences the referees should be held accountable for poor performance and be penalized for mistakes.

One of the best things we have going for us is the observer program. They have really dedicated themselves for helping us out.

She had conversations with officials on our roster helping tweak positioning and provide feedback on their conduct and calls throughout the season, using the video as backup and feedback from observers and coaches.

Watching the officials at the end of the season, some of the officials were tired mentally, and they need to manage their time better and not take games at community colleges etc.

  1. Fourth Official

Hunt recommended that at least for the TV games, a fourth official is used, to help back up the referee and be a substitute if anything happens to one of the officials assigned to the games. The role would be to help administer the game but not make any decisions and not action on the game.

ACTION: Coaches voted (12-0) to implement the use of a fourth official for all home matches. Including the women’s

Hunt requested spring schedules as soon as possible because those matches are great experience for the upcoming officials and training tools for officials on the rosters.

  1. Next Steps
  1. Future Meetings
  1. Visiting Team Protocols

Would like to add a training regulation to the handbook for the visiting team, to allow access to training and a walk thru on the playing surface the day of the game.

ACTION: The coaches voted 12-0 to recommend amending SPR 11-1-b-2 to:

The host institution shall secure a practice facility for the visiting team the day of or the day before a scheduled contest. Prior arrangements must be made through the head coach and/or event management administrator of the host institution at least.

Allow walk-thru on the competition field the day before or the day of the context with no ball.

  1. Conference Schedules

The conference schedule is approved until 2020, the coaches discussed moving to a Thursday/Sunday

  1. Criteria for Internal Reprimands
  1. Recruiting Interpretation

If you are using school funds to recruit and you are coaching a club team, you cannot go on the trip and coach the club team if the institution is paying. If the club team is paying, the coach cannot recruit for college. But other conferences are not following the same interp. The NCAA told the institution to go to their conference to get an interp. But each conference is giving a different interp than our conference.

The pac-12 and WCC are using that interpretation.

  1. Bands and artificial noisemakers

ACTION: Coaches voted to change SPR 11-2-a to:

Bands can play anytime

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