Head Coach question

[CaRef5]

Got a hypothetical for ya:

Team A begins with (guy 1) as the head coach. Halfway through the game his "assistant" begins to complain. The officials try to address the issue only to be told the "assistant" was the actual head coach.

The crew on the game says he can't do that because he began the game as the HC so he must finish it as the HC.

where can I find the rule that supports that or if there is one? (both NCAA and NFHS)

tried doing a search on this forum but no luck.

thanks!

[Freddy]

Don't have books here at work, but look under "Head Coach's Rule", which has prompted me, when R, to ask, if two or more coaches are there at the initial greeting, "Which of you is the head coach for purposes of using the coach's box?" That seems also to have served as a tactful suggestion that the other's aren't, by rule.
I had two guys who were twins who were dressed very much alike who responded, "We share the duties; I take the first and third quarters, my brother takes the second and fourth." My partners and I kinda stood there, dumbfounded, before finally declaring that one of them had to be appointed the head coach for the game.
We have a head coach for an area girls' varsity team who prefers to sit down the whole game and have her assistant use the box. A technicality, perhaps? We simply declare the assistant the head coach for the game and all goes right with the world.
In districts this past year, we nipped the assistant-coach-standing-in-the-box in the proverbial bud by saying very early in the contest, "Coach, your assistant cannot be standing--only you have the coach's box." To which he, surprisingly, given his status as a veteran and long-time respected coach, asked, "You mean for the whole game?" I just gave him the blond deer in the headlights look and his assistant complied the remainder of the game.

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by CaRef5

Got a hypothetical for ya:

Team A begins with (guy 1) as the head coach. Halfway through the game his "assistant" begins to complain. The officials try to address the issue only to be told the "assistant" was the actual head coach.

The crew on the game says he can't do that because he began the game as the HC so he must finish it as the HC.

where can I find the rule that supports that or if there is one? (both NCAA and NFHS)

The rules address the head coach. When he tells you he's the head coach before the game or when he meets you at the coaching meeting and then occupies the coaching box, then he's the head coach. There's no provision in the rules to change coaching positions during the game.

[JRutledge]

There is no rule that addresses this situation at all that I am aware of. In my state the Head Coach must come to the pre-game meeting, but that does not mean that it is only the coach that shows up is the HC. Actually we are to write up that HC if they do not come to the meeting, but nothing that says this is a declaration of some kind. I would keep it simple. Only one of these individuals are going to get the privileges as the HC so whatever they tell me that is what I am going with, unless there is a policy in place to change that stance.

Peace

[Judtech]

If the referee CLEARLY sees the coach INSIDE the box tag the coach OUTSIDE the box, then you have a legal tag. Otherwise the official will be prompted to escort the official outside the box BACK outside the box while the coach INSIDE the box gets hit in the head by a "foreign object".