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Z,
It's not your fault, but what you have cited is an inconsistent ruling by the NFHS. That case play ruling does not mesh with the definition of an indirect technical foul.
4-19-5e. An indirect technical, charged to the head coach as a result of a bench technical foul being assessed to team bench personnel, or a player technical foul being assessed to a team member for dunking or grasping the ring during pregame warm-up or at intermission.
I think that the NFHS ruling for 10.4.1 Sit D should have been to charge ONLY the Head Coach with a direct technical foul. If the Head Coach was not one of the offenders, then the situation becomes messy.
The was a similar ruling in last year's interps about the twelve team members changing into their jerseys prior to the game in the bench area. It also said to give the coach an indirect.
I do believe that giving the coach an indirect is probably the right thing to do in these cases, since he is supposed to be in charge of his bench personnel, but the NFHS needs to amend the definition in 4-19 and change the chart on page 73, which currently does NOT indicate an indirect to the Head Coach for Team technical fouls.
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