[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by UNIgiantslayers

Iowa has the box.

Here in my little corner of Connecticut, we still have a few grizzled veterans officiating who occasionally mistakenly tell a coach to sit down to deal with a problem. Not very often, but occasionally. A few retire, or pass away, each year.

(When I started officiating, I was going to wakes and funerals for parents of officiating colleagues. Now I'm going to wakes and funerals for parents of officiating colleagues, and to wakes and funerals for officiating colleagues.)

Things Officials Should Probably Not Be Saying In A Game

… probably for reasons of tradition, there have been things that officials often, or sometimes, say during a game that do not have any basis in the rules, and should probably not be said in a game.

"Sit down", is occasionally stated by an official to a coach who is acting in an unsporting way, but who has not yet been charged with a technical foul, is not rule based. Back in the “olden days” of the “seatbelt rule”, this was a common method of dealing with coaches who have gone, or who are about to go, “over the line”. Now, with the coaching box, officials can only tell coaches to sit down after they have been charged with a direct technical foul, or an indirect technical foul, and even then, there are still a few occasions when these coaches can still legally stand up.