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Originally posted by Hawks Coach
Your analogy on standing at the beginning of the game does not apply - neither team gets to do it.
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Ok, I can see your point, although I still think the analogy has some merit. Try this, then. If your interpretation is right, then after the head coach is ejected, the assistant should be allowed to stand, right? Whoever is calling the plays at the time is allowed to stand -- unless or until assessed a direct or indirect T. If that's true, then the assistant should be allowed to stand after the head coach is tossed. But s/he isn't. Why?
Because s/he is not the head coach.
Are we punishing the team by not allowing the assistant to stand? NO! Even tho the other coach is still allowed to stand? NO!
You don't understand why I'm reading the rule literally. And I don't understand how you can stretch it to include someone who is obviously not the head coach. There's
one head coach per game per team. If there's more than one, then s/he isn't really the "head" coach, is s/he? The privilege to stand applies explicitly and solely to the head coach.
I'm sorry if you don't understand why. I don't understand why the jump stop is legal
*. But it is, so that's how I call it. Maybe this rule is the same way.
* I understand the technicalities of the pivot foot that allow a jump stop. What I don't understand is why the rules committee continues to allow it to be legal. It seems like an obvious loophole to me.