Queen's coach intentionally grounds questions about players' conduct

Gaels coach Steve Snyder declined to comment about suspensions and players' conduct at his weekly press availability. Photo by Gare Joyce/Kingston Whig-Standard. Photo by GARE JOYCE/THE KINGSTON WHIG-STA / jpg, KI, apsmc

Queen’s football coach Steve Snyder’s press availability, a weekly meeting, was seconds over three minutes long this week, its brevity understandable if not defensible in light of the context of ground rules Snyder laid out through the school’s media-relations department: questions only about Saturday afternoon’s game against the Gryphons in Guelph, and, to be clear, no questions about the Gaels’ past games. Article content

The focus on the game ahead would be entirely understandable and even desirable in a team’s locker room. With just the game in Guelph and a Home