Coaches: Indirect vs. Direct

[SC Official]

Read Rule 10-5. Anytime bench personnel (including the head coach) commits one of those actions, it is a technical foul charged DIRECTLY to that individual. If the offender is not the head coach, the head coach is also INDIRECTLY charged a technical foul which does NOT count toward the team foul count, but counts as one of his/her 3 total T's before being ejected. In any situation the coaching box is lost. You will notice that pretty much everything in Rule 10-5 is conduct-related.

Additionally, Rule 10-6 outlines more actions that, if committed by the head coach, result in a DIRECT technical. That includes allowing team members to participate while wearing illegal UNIFORMS (10-6-4), NOT illegal equipment/accessories. For the latter they simply cannot participate until they remove the illegal item(s).

Administrative/team technicals (Rules 10-1 and 10-2) count as a TEAM FOUL but do NOT get assessed to the head coach or a team member. And since there is no technical (direct or indirect) being charged to the head coach, the coaching box is not lost.

[UNIgiantslayers]

Originally Posted by SC Official

Read Rule 10-5.

Here's the problem with the rulebook. It's not written for idiots like me, it's written by idiots like me. Rather than an easy-to-read and remember style such as

All of the following are administrative technical fouls that result only in a team foul;
All of the following are technical fouls indirectly assessed to the coach, etc.

It's written as:
All of the following are technical fouls.
Example A
Examble B
So on and so forth.
In the case of examples 1a, b, d (not c), e, f, 2, 4, blah blah blah.

I understand that I should have these memorized. That is 100% on me. But when trying to review these, they don't make it easy to refer back to the specific rules, at least in my mind. I guess I am trying to find the easiest way to remember which is what, mostly because I'm an idiot but don't want that to be evident when I inevitably come across one of these situations that I'm not 100% sure on.

[SC Official]

Behavior = direct/indirect (Rules 10-5 and 10-6), charged to an individual and indirectly to the head coach if not his actions
Non-behavior = administrative/team (Rules 10-1 and 10-2), charged only as a team foul

I would encourage you to use this as a rule of thumb which will guide you to the correct adjudication 99% of the time and not get bent out of shape over memorizing every infraction. Obviously illegal uniforms are not behavior-related but that's why I didn't say 100%, and some might not agree on what all falls under "behavior."

Also, use common sense. If the assistant coach is acting up why wouldn't we charge him/her directly with a T?

[Freddy]

I try to retain a measure of awareness of all these technicalities on technicals.
But I still carry a small laminated chart of the technical foul situations and penalties in my back pocket for ready reference should a weird situation arise in a game. Now, all I'd need to do is go to the locker room to get my glasses in order to be able to read the darn thing. Ugh.

One bit of advice given me: Start with the things that merit a direct against the coach, then go from there.