View Single Post
  #8 (permalink)  
Old Sat Jan 03, 2009, 01:07pm
Adam's Avatar
Adam Adam is offline
Keeper of the HAMMER
 
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: MST
Posts: 27,190
Quote:
Originally Posted by BillyMac View Post
Here, in my little corner of the Land Of Steady Habits, I have never seen, at any interscholastic level, a coach get a technical foul for being outside the box and coaching. Lots of warning. Lots of reminders. I've been officiating longer than the coaching box has been around. That doesn't make it right, it's just an observation. We may be enablers, and we may be our own worst enemies, but "When in my little corner of Connecticut ...".
I was U2 in a JV game recently where the R basically expressed this philosophy to the coaches. "If you're coaching, we probably aren't going to notice you." I was annoyed, but was boxed in. This is a guy who was only doing JV because in CO you have to do at least 2 JV games to be eligible for the playoffs; he let me know as much in pregame.

At half time, he mentioned that to the varsity guys that were following us; and I was happy to see they were as annoyed as I was.
__________________
Sprinkles are for winners.
Reply With Quote