2011-12 AND 2012-13 MEN'S AND WOMEN'S RULES - NAIA

Appendix I
Fight-Reporting
Procedures
The following apply to situations in which a fight has been reported by
an official during his/her jurisdiction. When a fight is not reported by an
official, the conference or assigning authority may invoke its own penalty.
For the rules on suspensions for fighting see Rule 10-7.
1. The official shall inform the offender(s), the head coach and the official scorer
that an ejection for fighting has occurred (the official scorer shall note this in
the scorebook).
2. After the game, the referee shall contact the coordinator of officials/assignor
for the game and report all ejection(s) for fighting.
3. The coordinator of officials/assignor shall report the ejection(s) for fighting
to the conference commissioner or, if the offender is from an independent
institution, to that team’s athletics director.
4. The conference commissioner shall call and follow up in writing to the
following people:
a. The athletics director of the team whose individual(s) was involved; and
b. When the opponent’s individual(s) was ejected for fighting, that team’s
conference commissioner or, when that school is an independent
institution, that team’s athletics director.
5. Fight-reporting procedures should be handled quickly since the long-term
participation of the offender(s) shall be affected by a second fight.
6. Related considerations:
a. The head coach should withhold the offender(s) from the next scheduled
game even if the conference or athletics director has not contacted him or
her.
b. Institutional and conference policy dictates whether a suspended individual
shall be permitted to attend a game from which he or she is suspended.
If the individual(s) attends the game, he or she shall not be in the team’s
bench area.
c. After a game, conference offices or the assigning authority may correct
an error about who was involved in a fight but can neither change an
official’s ruling that a fight took place nor lessen the severity of the
penalty. However, the conference office/assigning authority may make the
penalty more severe.
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