Coach starts game sitting outside coaching box

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by WhistlesAndStripes

Because even if the coach is sitting above the 28 ft line, he can still stand up in front of his chair to coach his team or applaud good play.




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Originally Posted by BillyMac

This mighty be a good time to remind the young'uns that with the coaching box, even after receiving a technical foul and being "seatbelted", a head coach is still allowed to stand under a few circumstances:

- to request a timeout or signal his/her players to request a time-out.
- to confer with personnel at the scorer’s table to request a time-out for correctable error, or a timing, scoring or alternating-possession mistake.
- to replace or remove a disqualified/injured player or player directed to leave the game.
- during a charged time-out or the intermission between quarters and extra periods.
- to spontaneously react to an outstanding play by a team member or to acknowledge a replaced player.

If for some odd reason there isn't a coaching box, or if the coach has chosen not to use it by his seat choice outside the box (original topic of this thread), the above rules are in place for the entire game, even with no technical foul.

Nowhere on that list of circumstances do I see where a HC is allowed to stand outside the coaching box to "coach" his team. So, if a HC chooses to sit above the 28' line and stands to yell instructions to his team, that should be an automatic Technical Foul.