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Why should the officials have to compensate for shortcomings? |
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The coach has no business at the table. |
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Actually it is 10-4-4 under NCAA rules, and they allow a lot more leeway than the Fed.
NCAA 10-4-4d A coach, team member or team attendant may leave the bench area at any time to point out a scoring or timing mistake, or to request a timeout to ascertain whether a correctable error needs to be rectified. NCAA 10-4-4e A coach or team attendant may leave the bench area to seek information from the official scorer or official timer during a timeout or an intermission. |
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Maybe the NFHS just doesn't want to force officials to judge the intent of the coach in those situations. By rule, I agree with you that the coach is never allowed at the table. But in the real world, it's simply not true that it's always bad when the coach goes to the table. BTW, a Styx reference? :) |
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Sorry, Skippy, but any situation where a coach puts us in a position where we have to decide whether to follow a plainly written rule or not is <b>never</b> a <b>good</b> situation. And I say that noting that there are situations where I would rather see a discrete warning used in lieu of a "T". In the real world, if you're doing an NCAA game and the coach is illegally out of the their coaching box, that wouldn't always be <b>bad</b> either, I take it? |
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What I disagree with is Bktballref's blanket statement (and gross overgeneralization) that: Quote:
(That's what you get for trying to post intelligently at 1:02 am. :p You should've been watching the end of "Field of Dreams" on AMC instead.) |
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What possible <b>good</b> can come out of a coach being at the scorers table <b>illegally</b> in the real world?:confused: The only way that I'd watch <b>Field of Dreams</b> again is if the corn burnt down in the fourth inning, taking all of the old goobers and Kevin Costner with it. |
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So my comment should've said, "If it weren't against the rules, I don't think there would be too many problems with coaches going to the table". Your comments were all made with the understandable assumption that the act itself was illegal and therefore bad. My comments were made with the assumption that we were talking about the actions at the table, rather than the coach breaking a rule to get to the table. So yes, boys and girls, it's bad -- very very bad -- for a head coach to be at the scorer's table, except in very rare and well-defined situations. However, if it weren't against the rules, I don't think very many bad things would happen by allowing the coach to be at the table briefly to check something in the book. Sorry for the confusion. |
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Besides, the table crew has enough to concentrate on without being bugged all the time by coaches. |
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I said, "Nothing good can come from a coach going to the table." That doesn't mean someone is going to get killed. Why should he need to go to the table for other than a correctable error? If he has an issue, he should approach an official or have a stat person or team manager go to the table. The NFHS doesn't want coaches going to the table. That fact is very evident. |
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