Coaches: Indirect vs. Direct

[SC Official]

Originally Posted by Raymond

The coach only gets an indirect technical foul when somebody who is not one of the five players on the court gets a technical foul. That does not include any of the technical fouls they get for book fractions. It does include players who get a technical foul during pregame warmups or during halftime. It includes an illegal uniform.

To expand, the coach gets an indirect T when any team member receives a technical foul during any intermission, not just halftime. Everyone is bench personnel during intermissions. During charged timeouts, technicals assessed to any of the five players are not indirectly charged to the head coach.

And illegal uniforms are a direct T on the head coach, with nothing charged to anyone else. A maximum of one direct T can be assessed to the head coach for uniform infractions.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by SC Official

To expand, the coach gets an indirect T when any team member receives a technical foul during any intermission, not just halftime. Everyone is bench personnel during intermissions. During charged timeouts, technicals assessed to any of the five players are not indirectly charged to the head coach.

And illegal uniforms are a direct T on the head coach, with nothing charged to anyone else. A maximum of one direct T can be assessed to the head coach for uniform infractions.

Oops.

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Raymond

Oops.

I’m confused. What is wrong with that statement? (I am working on 2 hours sleep and 3 starbucks so it might be something obvious)

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

I’m confused. What is wrong with that statement? (I am working on 2 hours sleep and 3 starbucks so it might be something obvious)

I incorrectly stated it was an indirect on the coach in the quoted post.

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[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by SC Official

And illegal uniforms are a direct T on the head coach, with nothing charged to anyone else. A maximum of one direct T can be assessed to the head coach for uniform infractions.

The most common (if one can call it common, only two illegal uniform issues in almost four decades of officiating) uniform infractions that I've seen were due to illegal numbers, in both cases single numerals between six and nine. In both cases technicals were avoided due to jersey changes. Both were in Catholic middle school games where the assigner, who was also a league officer, wanted these issues dealt with, with no taping over numbers allowed.

[SC Official]

I once had a team with a "7" in the book. Told the coach he could (1) get the guy a new number and change it without penalty (it was pre-10 minutes), (2) not play the guy and avoid penalty, or (3) let him play with "7" on and be one technical foul away from ejection (and sit the whole game). He chose (1).

Illegal numbers or teams wearing the same jersey color or unreadable numbers are probably the only situations where I'd issue or threaten to issue T's. If the uniforms had an illegal design or the home team was wearing something other than white, I'd likely just write a report to the state. But as always, check your local listings.