Drinking/Coaching during Free Throws...

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally posted by A Pennsylvania Coach
In our state, we have no coaching box, we have to sit the entire game, except to request timeout. The officials tell us every year that if they look over and see us standing, they will grant us a timeout, which brings me to an interesting story. I stayed to watch the start of the fourth quarter of the JV game late last season, before heading back to the locker room. About a minute in, I got up and walked off toward the locker room. I was easily ten steps off the bench (going around the outside of the court, of course) when the official granted our JV a timeout! (That's how JV officials remain JV officials.)

Anyway, my conferences with my PGs take place with me sitting and with my player remaining on the court.

The 'coaching box" rule was a tool that we officials were given to curtail unsportsmanlike behavior from the bench.That was the reason that the rule was put in for.It should be used for that,instead of being used to curtail actual coaching.JMO.