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Originally posted by A Pennsylvania Coach
Questions: What is the penalty for leaving the bench during a fight? Does the head coach get an indirect T for each player that leaves the floor? If you were officiating this game, would it have tossed more players? Any comments would be appreciated.
Oh, and THIS is what I'd call poor sportsmanship.
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Any player or coach that comes onto the court is called with a Flagrant Foul and ejected from the game.
If the coach did not leave the bench and was beckoned by the officials, that coach gets in indirect for every player that got involved (or bench personnel) that got involved in the fight. So bascially if 3 or more players left the bench, the coach is ejected with 3 indirects against him (at least).
Honestly, if this happen, the coach was beckoned in my opinion. I think it only makes sense to do it that way, as long as that coach is helping and not hurting the situation. I guess the second part of that, depends on what happens after that. If the players had to go a long way to get off the bench. If the incident happen right in front of the bench, then I would have to use judgement as to who got involved directly. I guess it comes down to what I saw. I would try to eject as many that really were involved. But officials are outnumbered and it is not like football where you have a pad to write down numbers. I hope this never happens in one of my games.
Peace