At high school level, do you allow assistant coaches to stand and yell at officials?

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by tnolan

negative.
but how about a productive discussion about dealing with assistants...
we were discussing this today and i'm not sure of the OP's reasoning for asking, but there is a big gray area with assistant coaches.

They may have a job to do ... but that job does not, in any manner, involve arguing with or complaining to the officials. There is no gray area here at all. If there is for you, I would submit that you're doing it wrong.

Originally Posted by pillsburrydoboi

At high school level, do you allow assistant coaches to stand and yell at officials?

Uh no.

[JRutledge]

I do not allow assistants to yell at me period. Let alone stand and do so.

Peace

[Mregor]

Originally Posted by pillsburrydoboi

At high school level, do you allow assistant coaches to stand and yell at officials?

Is this a joke? Hell no.

[Mbilica]

Assistant coaches should not be standing to criticize officials. That is a T, indirect to the head coach. I would give it without hesitation. As for assistants standing to talk to a player during a dead ball or just jumping up to express emotion, it doesn't bother me. I'm not looking over there.

The rules clearly support us here, though. The assistant coach, like all team personnel, are the responibility of the head coach. Only the head coach may stand.

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[Pantherdreams]

Assistants do not get to yell at or be critical of officials. I will happily remind a head coach ONCE that his assistants are there to help him and the team not to comment to or on officiating. After that an indirect normally solves it.

I am a little more lenient on the standing issue. If they are all up and staying up coaching and yelling across the floor no. Depending on gym physical setting or nature of their activity I am willing to allow assistants to get up and walk up and down the bench to talk to their own players on the bench or to change positions to sit with a player to show them something. If there is space I ask they walk behind the bench, but if there isn't I will let them walk in front.

Standing to direct or get a kids attention momentarily isn't a big deal to me either. Just get back in your seat and make sure the head coach is the one up moving and doing.

Biggest problem I find myself and other officials in is in games (beyond when someone is just being a jack wagon), where either the head coach gets into a protracted conversation with 1 or more officials while the assistant(s) huddle up with some or all of the waiting players. OR vice versa where someone is willing to talk to an assistant about an issue and the HC is using that time as a temporary timeout.

[#olderthanilook]

N.e.v.e.r.

[VaTerp]

Originally Posted by pillsburrydoboi

At high school level, do you allow assistant coaches to stand and yell at officials?

I think you would get more yes answers to the question, "do you allow your wife to have other men in your bed and have sex with them."