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Obviously I don't live where either of you live, but I agree totally with Mark. Any time you make a decision, you need to make the right call and to handle a situation appropriately. Anything other than that just gets you in more trouble down the road. In my associations, officials get dinged for not enforcing the rules of bench decorum. In the short term, not ejecting the coach may help you politically, but over the long run, it could cost you bigger games (again, I could be wrong based on the area).
As for the AD, I would ream the coach if I were the AD and the V HC got tossed from the JV game. A guy who is in that position probably shouldn't be coaching, and his career would likely be very short, to the point where you might not have a political problem. As for the assignor, he will probably have to take s*** from the school if your actions weren't warranted, but then that wouldn't make a difference which game you were working.
Finally, what do you say to the young ref who has to deal with the coach in the next JV game he does? That kid will be in for a rough night without possessing the confidence or game management skills that you have. Gordon, valid point about you'd need to control it before, but there's only so much you can control, if a coach gets ejected, in your mind, he's earned it.
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