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Most of those are standard requests from schools. I glanced at it so I may have missed something truly out of line.
The only stuff that bothers me is having to go through someone outside the athletic department for interviews. How bout you let me and the baseball coach figure out what time works for a season preview. I think they can handle that just fine.
And here's the "missing" piece: The coaches like this because they generally DGAF whether y'all cover them or not. Many of them prefer not giving out their "trade secrets." Paranoia has always been their default mode. Now there's nothing stopping them from being paranoid.I find this whole thing vaguely unsettling in a trying-to-control-the-message way. I don't want Sierra or Monica, do-nothing PR wonks hired by the administration, lurking near my interview with Coach Meathead. fork off.
The part about the locker rooms being closed is wholly unsettling. For the love of Christ, you're not a forking professional sport. Coaches can handle talking in their office and figuring out which kids can handle an interview. Though this would allow the 2023 version of college stringer me (j/k, there are no more stringers #CrossThread) to avoid having to interview the football team captain who was butt naked and absent-mindedly scratching his balls a few years after he and I were shopping for baseball cards together.
And here's the "missing" piece: The coaches like this because they generally DGAF whether y'all cover them or not. Many of them prefer not giving out their "trade secrets." Paranoia has always been their default mode. Now there's nothing stopping them from being paranoid.