Restricted To The Dugout??
Head coach is restricted to the dugout.
What is he restricted from? In reading 3-4-4 it says something about "if a coach who is restricted to the dugout is involved in a charged conference...." that seems to say he can go out for a conference. Is there somewhere that says what he cannot do when restricted? |
A charged conference can be held at the bench. Also if a player is ill or injured, the coach may attend to them. That is about all he can do. However, his official duties can be only conducted on/at the bench. Any further unsportsmanlike conduct gets him ejected.
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Basically, he can do all his coaching duties as long as he doesn't leave the bench area - conferences all have to come to him at the bench
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And there are instances where he should be ejected and not restricted. Make sure to toss him when by rule you can't restrict.
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I am glad I work a ruleset that doesn't permit restricting. I fail to see the merit in it. Throw them out. |
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I don't work FED, so this question: does having conferences at the dugout create significant delay?
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Delay?
Not really, the players run in and run out just like at the half-inning change with no warm-ups. I usually allow the same amount of time for the coach to make his point, then break it up.
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I have never restricted a coach to dugout and then witnessed a conference where players come to bench. Coach delegates conferences to assistants.
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The best part of restricting is that I get the coach sitting on the bench and quiet (since by rule he is ejected if he causes any more trouble) and I don't have to write a report. :D
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+1,000,000 |
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It's no more delay, and often less, to have F1 jog over to the dugout and back than to have coach haul his butt out to the mound and back. |
This is the dumbest rule in all of baseball. The dugout restriction. What good does it do. Every time I have restricted an ejection comes later. So I have stopped restricting and just ejecting.
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"Every time" seems to me to be a tremendous stretch. |
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