Manny Diaz doesn't have strong feelings on the ACC's new requirement for teams to produce availability reports before games.
The ACC had a version of injury reporting when Manny Diaz was Miami’s coach.
Now that the league has mandated public availability reports every week, Diaz is indifferent to doing them at Duke.
“When I was at Miami, we had it and then it went away,” Diaz said on Monday. “You know, I don’t spend a whole lot of time thinking about that. We’ll do what they tell us to do.”
ACC commissioner Jim Phillips announced last month that injury reports will come to the league for football, men’s and women’s basketball and baseball.
Before every ACC football game, teams will submit an availability report two days before the game. It will be updated the next day and on the day of the game.
“This decision is directly connected to our ongoing commitment to best protect our student-athletes and our multi-faceted approach to addressing the effects of sports wagering,” Phillips said in Charlotte. “In this case, it would alleviate pressure from entities or individuals who are involved in sports wagering that attempt to obtain inside information about availability from players, coaches, and other staff.”
There is uniformity in requiring these reports. In recent years, some coaches would be more open and honest than others about the status of injured players.
The policy Diaz is referring to was a non-public injury report shared between ACC teams before games. That was nixed sometime around 2018 or ’19.
Diaz kept things fairly close to the vest last season, his first at Duke. He discussed players who suffered season-ending injuries but stopped short of delving too much into details beyond that.
Designations submitted before game days will be available, probable, questionable or out. The day-of updates will be submitted two hours before each game and each player will be designated as available, game time decision, or out.
In basketball and baseball, reports will be submitted the day before each ACC game and on the day of the game.
All availability reports and the full conference policy will be available on the ACC’s website. Failure to follow the policies will be subject to review and potential penalties.
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