Coaching Box
 

Team A's Head Coach gets a T. Team A Head Coach loses his coaching box. Does that mean he can't say anything to his players or he just can't stand up and coach?

He can't coach from his feet but he doesn't get muzzled(unfortunately). He can stand to call a timeout, acknowledge a good play, go to the scorer's table for a correctable error, and of course he can also stand during timeouts and the replacement of disqualified players.

Might as well let him stand, but rules are rules....thanks a bunch

Do you think that the coach has many opportunities to stand?

Luckily, the events JR described are not very common. How often have you had a coach go to the table about a possible correctable error situation? I'm lucky if I have to use 2-10 once every few years. And a coach thinking there is one? Even less often. DQs and TOs are similar in that a coach is deciding who to put in. So let him walk a few feet up and down the bench.

The majority of a game is the usual up and down with dead ball periods. That 95% of the game the coach is seatbelted after a T.