I am on the board of our local rec league. We have a limit of one head roach, er, I mean coach, and one assistant roach - damn, there I go again - on the bench at games. Two years ago, while doing a 7th grade boys game, I had another dad want to sit on the bench. I told him he couldn't (the rule was made to reduce confusion to the kids as to who, officially, should be telling them what to do). He yelled and screamed and got in my face. I calmly told him that now, not only couldn't he sit on the bench, he couldn't sit, or stand, anywhere in the gym. Plus - I recommended to the rest of the board that he be suspended from attending the next two games. They agreed.
He never asked to sit on the bench in any of my games again. I think the kids were better off because of it.
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