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

[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]

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