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Originally posted by ChuckElias
What if he's talking to the guy who's sitting right behind the opponent's bench, listening in on the huddle?
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Well, since it is a live ball, any huddle at the opponent's bench is probably just a diversionary tactic to throw off the listening team....
Just messin' with you Chuck (and not very artfully, at that!). I like this discussion forum because it equips me with information I wouldn't necessarily otherwise have (or at least not as quickly). I hadn't thought of a cell phone as being useful for coaching purposes -- hence my counsel to ignore -- but I suppose absent some suggestion that it WAS being used for coaching purposes, the best advice might be to say to a coach (or directly to the AC) at a convenient dead ball: "Electronic devices aren't allowed on the bench for coaching purposes, coach. You may not have been using it for that reason, but since we'll never know why a phone is being used, it's just better to keep it off the bench, O.K.? Thanks."