The Division I Baseball Committee issued a public reprimand to Chance Miller, Coastal Carolina vice president of intercollegiate athletics and university recreation, for misconduct at the Division I Baseball Championship on June 22.
Committee members cited Miller for berating the NCAA national coordinator of umpires in a public setting and later NCAA staff in the hallways of Charles Schwab Field Omaha.
It was the committee's understanding that Miller was frustrated by an umpire's decision to eject Coastal Carolina head baseball coach Kevin Schnall and assistant baseball coach Matt Schilling during game two of the championship series of the Men's College World Series.
The committee determined that there was misconduct per NCAA Bylaw 31.02.4. As defined in the bylaw, misconduct in an NCAA championship is "any act of dishonesty, unsportsmanlike conduct, unprofessional behavior or breach of law, occurring from the time the championship field is announced through the end of the championship, that discredits the event or intercollegiate athletics."
The committee issued the following penalties:
- A public reprimand.
- Miller cannot attend the next regional-round game for which his team qualifies.
"The NCAA Division I Baseball Committee strongly believes this type of behavior is unacceptable and has no place at any NCAA championship event," said Jay Artigues, committee chair and director of athletics at Southeastern Louisiana. "As an athletics director, Mr. Miller is expected to uphold the highest standards of conduct, and his actions fell well short of that expectation."
