Live ball touched by coach

[rainmaker]

Originally posted by Hawks Coach
... then opted to call if off the "black" coach, white ball (this is a color of uniform description, not a racail commentary by the ref ).

I love it when the predominantly African-American team wears white jerseys and the predominantly Caucasian team wears the black ones.

... he told me that I had to avoid the ball - if I got hit, it was off me. Must be one of the new rule changes I didn't read yet.

At least he didn't call a "T"!

[Pelotas]

T on first.
Second violation on B (coach) and A get the ball at point of interuption. Unless I felt B coach purposely did it to gain advantage, then it's a T on B coach.

[Paul LeBoutillier]

There have been a lot of thoughts weighing in on this one and several of you have lots more experience than I, but IMHO the best call is OOB on A, B's ball. Treating the coach as you would any other person or object OOB seems the best and safest path under the circumstances.

The fact is, without BEING there and SEEING for ourselves how the coach reacted it's impossible to say for sure, but it sure SOUNDS like the coach simply reacted to the ball as it was about to bean him. I wouldn't make a big deal of it.