Insight on Coaches box

[truerookie]

I had a situation last night at a girls freshmen game. I will admit I did not handle the situation properly. Rule 10-5 states;
The coach must remain sitted on the bench when the clock is running inside the coaches box. So, I asked the coach to have a seat there wasn't anything spetacular going on and he's up by 20. He refuse telling me that he can stand as long as he wants as long as he is not on my case as an official and this is how he coaches. I got that and I understand the problem that I see it is. There may be official ahead of me who allow this to happen me being fairly new to this trying to enforce the rules have an different time when situations like this arises. I will state again I did not handle the situation properly. The actions I could have taken was to T him up thus enforcing the seat belt rule. I have written this down in my journal as a lesson learned and I can honestly say when this situation arises again I will not hesitate again to enforce the seat belt rule. I find it frustrating that some my predecessors are not enforcing this rule IMO. One other thing Rule 1-13NOTE STATES: A head coach can stand in the coaches box to give instruction to his team if you local state association adopts it as a rule. I will check with my state to see if they have adopted it as a rule to further educate myself. I would like to know how do some of you handle a situation like this?