[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

I have to agree with Mark Dexter and Camron Rust's earliest posts. The Head Coach is supposed to be sitting on the bench or standing in his coaching box. If he is on the court he already is committing an infraction of the rules and if I run into him because he is on the court, well guess what? WHACK!!

I also have to add that my opinion comes with a bias. In 34 years of officiating I have charged two coaches with technical fouls because I ran into them while they were on the court. The first one was the head coach of a women's college team and the second one was the head coach of a girls' H.S. varsity team. In the latter case, the technical foul elimnated a turnover by his opponents that would have given his team the ball with approximately 4 seconds left in the game and a chance to tie the game and send it into overtime.

MTD, Sr.