Friday night, Varsity girls, my partner tossed a coach. That is a story in itself, which I won't go into, but after the game we came up with a question about the assistant coach. She became the head coach when the coach was ejected. Was she still then required to obey the seatbelt rule? She replaced a coach who was already under the seatbelt rule because of the first T on him. Or, would it be considered a new deal? Hopefully we'll not see this too often but it is something we need to know.

The "replacement" coach must remain seated.

All for one, and one for all.

She is still the Asst., just now she is in charge of the team. The seatbelt still applies.

Ralph: The way I see it is the seatbelt is in affect for the entire bench. Exit one coach, they still all play by the same rule the rest of the game.

By rule, EXACTLY RIGHT!!

What if the coach gets thrown out while not yet seatbelted?

If the coach is ejected but hasn't been seatbelted
until that point he has really gone overboard and gotten
a flagrant technical foul. this puts the seatbelt rule
on for all who are designated the headcoach for that team
for the rest of the game.

Mark D - How do you get ejected and not have been seatbelted? Gotta have a T somewhere here, so the seatbelt comes in immediately. Refs on Saturday didn't know the rule. T'd up the head coach (in game before ours - it wasn't me I swear!) and he sits down and assistant takes his place pacing the floor and staring down the refs!

Also, one of the coaches told me after the game, "good luck with the refs." From what I saw, their team was completely overmatched and they would have needed extraordinary good luck with the refs, the scorers and anyone with powers of divine intervention to have a prayer at winning.

I see, even if it were a flagrant T, it is still a direct/indirect coach T, which buckles the seatbelt, so to speak. (Sorry, for, all, the, commas,.)

And their horses, too!