28-foot box

[SC Official]

Originally Posted by Freddy

The MHSAA announced on its www.mhsaa/officials site that the new rule 1-13-2 will not be approved for the 2017-18 season:

BASKETBALL COACHES BOX NOTICE:
The MHSAA has not adopted the NFHS (NEW) allowance for a 28 foot coaches box.
The MHSAA will only allow for regular season and MHSAA tournaments the 14 foot coaches box.

I don't understand why we (officials/states) should concern ourselves with where the coach is standing as long as he's in front of his bench, off the court and out of harm's way.

A 14-foot box makes our job as officials unnecessarily harder. The refrain I hear is that the expanded box "...gives him 14 more feet to act like a jackass." Well if you're not scared to do your job, he won't be acting like a jackass. The same was true before this change.