[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Yes, you can remove a coach or assistant coach without assessing any technical fouls.

During the 1998 AAU Boys' 13U/14U N.I.T. my partner and I had a game where one of the assistant coaches was the father of one of the players. Early in the third quarter the assistant coach's son throw the ball out-of-bounds. The head coach was not happy with the player's pass and took the boy out of the game. As the player (age 13) approached the team bench, his father grabbed him by the shoulders, picked his son up off of the floor and throw him onto the bench. My partner (a minister) and I saw this and we immediately stopped the game and told the father/assistant coach that he had to leave the building. He asked us how we could make him leave the buildiing without charging him with a technical foul. We told him that we did not have to charge him with a technical foul, we just did not want him in the building anymore. He was not happy but he left, but he was back in the gym within five minutes with the site manager. The site manager wanted to know what happened. We told him what happened and he told the father assistant coach to get of the building pronto.