If a coach is crowding the field but is clearly behind me as a wing, I use the same rule as an exiting substitute; If it is behind me, I don't see it. Once the coach gets out as far as I am or is on the field at all when I am stretched to the sideline, I hit him with the warning. Very few coaches are as big as me, former O-lineman, so I remind them that not only do they risk yardage if they do it again, I may inadvertently run though them if they do it during a play. I usually get a broad smile from the coach and I have never had to bang a coach with yardage for crowding the field. The sideline warning can be diplomatically applied so that further instances are prevented and it is the most useful but least used tool the wing official has IMHO.
BulldogMcC
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