ABSTRACT
This chapter considers institutional consensual relationship policies, the larger issue of player-coach sexual relationships, and institutional reactions in each case. On March 7, 2007, Louisiana State University (LSU) head women's basketball coach Dana "Pokey" Chatman resigned after the university became aware of an alleged sexual relationship between Chatman and one of her players. The circumstances surrounding the resignation of Tom Mutch as head coach of Boston College (BC's) women's ice hockey team share many similarities to the situation involving Pokey Chatman. Tom Mutch, at the time of his alleged transgressions at BC, was himself married to a woman whom he coached on the 1998 Women's Olympic hockey team. At BC, there was nothing from the university administration explicitly stating the institution's policy toward student-coach relationships; many news reports about the case indicated that BC, too, had no written policy on the matter.
