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It’s not an IAABO rule, but the NFHS rule I quoted above. The coaching box lines must be on the floor and it’s the referee’s job to make sure they are. So according to the rule book if the referee allows the game to be played without a coaching box they are not doing their job.

Here we wait for the lines to be put down. When the 12X12 X rule went from shall from should. We’d wait for one to be put down before the game would start. We came out and did it as a board every time and after the fourth home game of the year we didn’t have to say it too often because the schools knew it needed to be done.

Game management look at it this way, if the AD get upset he’s in the corner of the gym for 32 minutes and you are 100% backed by the rules. Now you tell the coach they can’t do something they have been allowed to do 13 games prior, something they have the right to do according to the rules. They are going to be upset on the sideline for 32 minutes and they are going to be 100% entitled to be that way.