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Originally Posted by splitveer
Last night we had an interesting situation. About a minute before the game starts an assistant coach walks around the floor and walks up to the top bleacher in the crowd. Then at halftime he comes down and gives information to the coaching staff. He then comes back and sits down on the bench in the second half. To my understanding he would be bench personnel and cannot leave the bench area for any unauthorized reason. So, do we assess an unsporting technical? What if the coach does not come down on the bench in the second half and stays in the stands?
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The assistant coach is covered under rule 10-4. Under that, he is covered for unsporting conduct anywhere.
Afaik there's no rule covering non-unsporting conduct while he's sitting in the stands or having a dump. The only restriction that I know of when he's in the stands is communicating electronically with the bench(10-1-3) or unacceptable fan behavior.
Don't make up your own rules. If you think it's a problem, kick it up the ladder and let the powers-that-be decide what to do. That's their job, not your's.