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Originally Posted by voiceoflg
In baseball, players and coaches are ejected for everything from fighting to arguing balls and strikes. In football (to my knowledge) coaches can't get ejected for simply arguing the spot of the ball, for example.
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You've got to consider the specifics of the sport and what would be likely to hold up the game. If a football coach walked onto the field to point to where he thinks the ball should be spotted, the way a baseball coach might point out where he thinks the ball landed foul, the possible delay to the administration of the game would be intolerable in football but tolerable in baseball. It's not being on the field per se that's a problem, because Mighty Mites can have 1 coach for each team on the field, it's interference with play. But in baseball, pitches are so frequent that anyone's arguing balls & strikes anywhere would slow the game to a crawl and not gain a thing, because they could never prove a thing by it, while there's a
slight chance the coach or a player could correct an umpire's error of fact on other calls.
Robert