I think the "tail" is "wagging" the dog now.

IAABO_ref, you asked a very simple question, and I gave you a very simple answer. You asked how a state could impose such a rule if they are supposedly using FED rules. The answer is that each state can impose whatever frickin' rules they want. The individual states don't go to the FED and get special dispensations for their adaptations. They can do whatever they want. That's the bottom line. The comments that you made above are irrelevant to the question that you yourself posed.

You don't like the rule? Don't work in that state.

I guess the question that I looking to get answered is why? Has VA had a big problem with school refusing to put coaching box lines down that they felt they needed to put in such a rule?

The answer to your "why" is because we are enforcing the coaching box to the max! All of the school in our area have them, so its no an issue. The underlying issue is keeping the coaches in them. In my area we have had coaches barking at officials outside of the box, sitting there chairs way outside of the box as well as coaching way outside of the box. To make sure the enforcement of the box works, we had to state that for some reason there is no box, we are not going to put tape on the floor and the home coach will sit and the visiting coach will stand and have a box to the officials specifications. Bottom line is, IT IS NOT UP TO US TO PUT LINES ON THE COURT for coaching boxes or anything else. Its the home teams responsibility.