OOB touched by coach

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Eastshire

I'll rephrase the question because I think it's an interesting one:

What, if anything, can a coach legally do to touch a ball which has not yet touched out of bounds but is in flight over out of bounds when an opposing player is actively making a play to maintain the in-bounds status of the ball?

There's a large part of 2-3 in this situation.

For me, I don't make the coach move, but I also don't allow the coach to move from his/her current position to touch the ball or to get in the way of the player chasing the ball.