Bench decorum
Jim Boeheim, head men basketball coach
Syracuse University
National Association of Basketball Coaches president
The Associated Press
he bench decorum rules, which include staying in the prescribed coaching box, have been interpreted in various ways for some time, This initiative for strengthened, consistent enforcement has significant ramifications. Coaches and game officials who do not strictly adhere to the rules will be penalized./span>

Sherri Coale, head women basketball coach
University of Oklahoma
Women Basketball Coaches Association president
The Associated Press
s coaches, we are fully accountable for our actions. With strengthened enforcement, coaches will be more conscious of their demeanor knowing that a penalty will result from inappropriate behavior./span>

Hank Nichols, coordinator of basketball officiating
NCAA
Indianapolis Star
he last several years, both coaches and officials have been really lax about observing the rules about bench conduct and the coaching box. It been a dual responsibility both of them have shirked.
iven the good start wee had for other things, it was thought, you know, we can have coaches running around crazy. It not good for the game. It not a positive image. We need to get them on notice and officials on notice to get the game back to where it needs to be./span>

Mike Tranghese, commissioner
Big East Conference
Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette
t came about because enough is enough. I thought it was out of control last year and I felt that coming down heavy on people in the middle of the year was not the right way to go. It was embarrassing. Twice last year we sent out memos directing our coaches about it and it got a little better. Then we put it on our agenda at our meetings and we had a great conversation. People talked about it openly./span>

Roy Williams, head men basketball coach
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Durham (North Carolina) Herald-Sun
afraid that wee going to go overboard on the thing. I think the intent of the NABC was to try to get coaches to show good sportsmanship. I think the intent by the NABC was to get coaches to remain in the coachesbox and not gain an advantage by one coach being able to communicate better to his team than the other guy who did stay in his coachesbox.
think the push by the NABC is to recognize those things, and I afraid that people are going to see that as they want a referee to call a technical foul on me when Ie got my instep over the line talking to Deon (Thompson) trying to get him to change men with Tyler (Hansbrough), which is silly./span>

John Clougherty, coordinator
of basketball officials
Atlantic Coast Conference
Durham (North Carolina) Herald-Sun
have visited with our officials, I have visited with our coaches, and there have been some strict guidelines set. Everybody knows the score, and now we hope wel all abide by the new rules.
e don want to paint ourselves into a corner. This rule still has spirit of intent, and the officials have to apply common sense when dealing with the rule./span>

Jim Calhoun, head men basketball coach
University of Connecticut
Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette
et say there three seconds left in a tie game. Coach steps out on the line. Technical foul, game over. And if you don call it, you don work the NCAA tournament. It ludicrous.
here were a couple of incidents last year when coaches ran under the basket and things like that. Fine. You should throw them out of the game. But this is too much./span>

Mick Cronin, head men basketball coach
University of Concinnati
Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette
on underestimate our officials. My assumption with this is they are empowering officials and saying, ey, you need to make sure guys aren out of control and berating you on every call. Don feel that you need to take that on every call.But my staff already told me, ey, if you get grabbed from behind, here why./span>

Pat Douglass, head men basketball coach
University of California, Irvine
Los Angeles Times
ou can rest assured if some guy stands up and gets a that costs a game, guys will have seat belts on after that./span>

Bill Self, head men basketball coach
University of Kansas
Lawrence (Kansas) Journal World
hat is something the officials and the rules committee have been adamant about that bench decorum needs to improve. I don think that bad. We got so many memos about that last year. I don see it as a problem in our league. I think it good on the whole for our game./span>

Matt Painter, head men basketball coach
Purdue University
Indianapolis Star
not saying I don swear at all, but it not like you have to do it. (Coaches) don swear when they do their radio or TV show, and that live, so if you have that ability to turn it on and off, you can do it in a game./span>

Mike Brey, head men basketball coach
University of Notre Dame
Indianapolis Star
t great. It needed. There no question how we come across. Wee supposed to be educators. I think we need to keep that in mind with language, body language, staying in the darn coaching box and staying off the darn floor. I think it all good stuff. There are a lot of people within earshot of the bench./span>

John Brady, head men basketball coach
Louisiana State University
Birmingham News
hen you care about what youe doing, it hard not to show emotion. They want me to tell you I shouldn do those things. But there too much on the line. It hard to be stoic and show no emotion when the expectations to win are so great. I got no chance./span>

Bruce Pearl, head men basketball coach
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Birmingham News
hey need to understand there is a fine line between passion and an unsportsmanlike act./span>

Mike Krzyzewski, head men basketball coach
Duke University
Durham (North Carolina) Herald-Sun
really think too much is being made of it because there aren any big rule changes to talk about,... It like the movie that comes out when there no other movie coming out, and you go to see it because it the only one./span>