The recent scandals surrounding Iowa State basketball coach Larry Eustachy and former Alabama football coach Mike Price have made an impression on college coaches: Be careful where you tread.

In the wake of Eustachy being photographed at fraternity and campus parties and Price being fired by Alabama because of his off-the-field conduct -- which included a night spent at a topless bar -- men's basketball coaches and their football brethren are becoming more guarded about whom they associate with and where they choose to dine or drink.

"You have to watch your company," Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said. "If I did something wrong then I should be punished for it. Larry Eustachy is a good guy, but it's sad. He shouldn't have done what he did.

"This incident puts people in a position if they did want to do something to you, they can. You get paid a lot of money and there is prestige as a coach and what that means is you can't lead your life the same as everyone else. You have to be able to handle that."

Krzyzewski and Maryland coach Gary Williams, two of a slew of coaches who participated in last weekend's Nike Coaches Clinic at the Mohegan Sun in Connecticut, both agreed that no coach can escape scrutiny.

"There are people who will cheer and watch your teams play, but they'd also like to bring you down," Williams said. "We all have to understand that coaches make a lot of money in coaching and we're fair game. Pictures can show up with the media. People will call tips in to the media."

At this year's Final Four in New Orleans, there were ripe photo ops for college coaches, and Bourbon Street could have been the setting for precarious situations.

Villanova coach Jay Wright, for one, said he had second thoughts last month after taking a picture with both male and female Villanova students as he walked along Bourbon Street. It was a harmless photo but it forced Wright to reexamine the choice he made.

"What do they do with the picture? Everybody is going to be increasingly careful, what they do, where they've been seen and who they are with," Wright said. "I'm even more conscious of it at a Catholic school, but now this? Everybody has to be more concerned."

Just because the season is over doesn't mean photo requests end. It does not mean coaches can't find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.

When coaches gather next month in Las Vegas for the Big Time Adidas Basketball Tournament, one of the biggest summer recruiting events, a number of Division I college coaches head to the Hard Rock Café to socialize. If someone pulls out a camera and snaps a shot of a coach at the bar, does that coach need to worry?

"We're getting paid a lot, but that doesn't mean you can't go have a drink, or go out to eat or gamble if you're in Las Vegas. That's what normal people do," Krzyzewski said. "I don't take pictures in a casino, not because I'm ashamed that I play video poker or slots or whatever, but I don't want somebody to use that in a different way.

"We're getting a lot of money and prestige so there is a price to be paid," he added. "You're not just representing your program but your university. You have to understand that you're more visible. You have to be careful. It's the same with what we tell our players -- to watch what car they get into or who they're with."

Krzyzewski also said college coaches have to realize that they are scrutinized more than NBA coaches.

"If you're in the professional ranks, you can be out there more," Krzyzewski said. "The Sixers, as an example, are not judged by what Larry Brown does off the court, but Allen Iverson. When you're coaching in college, you are judged by what you do off the court."

Andy Katz is a senior writer at ESPN.com.