UI Argonaut boycotts practices

You won’t see the Argonaut at football practice. Earlier this month, a spokesperson for Vandal Athletics sent out an email notifying media that football practices would be closed to the media. But these new rules didn’t apply to everyone. Previously, Vandal Athletics had allowed members of the media to attend and observe certain practices as long as the appropriate spokesperson was notified 24 hours in advance. This was not a universal policy for higher-education athletics. Now, media as a whole are only invited to the last 10 minutes of specific practices and to any news conferences. Instead of blanketing the new rules and regulations for media to every news organization, Vandal Athletics decided to pick and choose whom it would allow at practice. Specific reporters from the Argonaut and the Lewiston Tribune were notified they were still allowed to attend one football practice a week/ UIdaho Argonaut Editorial Board . More here.

Question: Am I the only one who considers actions taken by UI football coach Paul Petrino toward the media, including the Idaho Argonaut student newspaper, to be clueless?