NCAA Coaching Box POE

[Old School]

Originally Posted by Mwanr1

I don't think coaches have to seat for college - the "seatbelt rule" is for NFHS only. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

That is correct. But think about it, this whole issue goes away if you remove the coaching box altogether and it would be very easy to administer. One problem I see here is the punishment doesn't fit the crime, therefore, it's going to be very hard to get this enforce consistently nationwide. With the game in the balance, no official is going to want to call this, without a warning first. Then we talked about game interrupters, where you call something that most might feel doesn't need to be called, just a stern warning not to do it again, and you keep the game moving.

Give you an example. I once had a game go into triple overtime. At one point in the second overtime, my partner made a bad call. The coach couldn't believe it and ran out to half court to meet the calling official pleating his case. It was a bad call. Neither one of us wanted the game to end this way so we past on the T and told the coach to get back to his huddle. Now, we got one bad call and we're going to compund it with a T on the coach. Guaranteed, if we would have made that call, we would have had a hard time getting out of that gym.

I think the committee needs to regroup on this one and come up with something that is more reasonable, more feasible, something that all the referee's can get behind. That way it would be enforce consistently across the board.