coaching box

[tjones1]

In Illinois it's simple, no boxes means the coaches have to sit.

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

NFHS R10-S5-A1 (Head Coach's Rule), known in layman's terms as the Seat Belt Rule, has been virtually unchanged since the NBCUSA adopted it for boys'/girl's high school and men's college competition in 1970-71. Of course it was never enforced at the men's college level and when the NBCUSA split into the NFHS Basketball Rules and NCAA Basketball Rules Committees the NCAA Committee dropped the rule.

The rule as written is a seat belt rule but with a provision that a StateHSAA can adopt a Coaching (not Coach's ) Box with the stipulation that the CB be marked, even if a StateHSAA adopts a CB, if it not marked at both benches the "Seat Belt Rule" prevails for both teams.

MTD,Sr.

[Adam]

Unless you're in Connecticut, Mark. I like their approach, actually, as it gives some incentive for the schools to paint it properly.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Unless you're in Connecticut, Mark. I like their approach, actually, as it gives some incentive for the schools to paint it properly.

Unless you're one of those rare coaches, and there are a small few, who don't do a lot of standing in a game, and actually do much of their coaching from their seat on the bench. I run into one, or two, of them almost every season. It could actually create some type of small advantage to have half of their games, i.e., home games, played under "Seat Belt" rules. So, in these rare cases, it might be an incentive for school, with such a coach, to not paint the lines.

[SCalScoreKeeper]

My school has it marked properly but most of our officials just count off plastic chairs on the bench as the box.In our case 7 chairs from the chair closest to the table form the 14 ft box.

[JRutledge]

This is just a rule they need to get rid of. Let the damn coaches roam the sideline. What difference does it make. As long as they stay with the 28 foot mark, why do we care where they stand or sit? I am so sick and tired of this stupid rule. It just becomes a distraction to where our focus really should be.

Peace

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

This is just a rule they need to get rid of. Let the damn coaches roam the sideline. What difference does it make. As long as they stay with the 28 foot mark, why do we care where they stand or sit? I am so sick and tired of this stupid rule. It just becomes a distraction to where our focus really should be.

Peace

It doesn't really matter what size you make it, they'd still have a range they'd be limited to and we'd still have SOME point that we'd have to enforce. 28' to baseline, fine, you'd still have to keep them in that area.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

It doesn't really matter what size you make it, they'd still have a range they'd be limited to and we'd still have SOME point that we'd have to enforce. 28' to baseline, fine, you'd still have to keep them in that area.

I do agree, but at least it would not be a smaller area and often the 28 foot mark would be a good starting point. Most courts already have that mark and the problem is that the other marking is usually a problem.

Peace

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

This is just a rule they need to get rid of. Let the damn coaches roam the sideline. What difference does it make. As long as they stay with the 28 foot mark, why do we care where they stand or sit? I am so sick and tired of this stupid rule. It just becomes a distraction to where our focus really should be.

Talk about distractions. I don't like it when coaches get too close to the table, and either purposely, or accidentally, get in my way as I report fouls to the table, or look toward the table for incoming substitutes.

Nothing more challenging than trying to report a foul "through" a coach who is about ready to be charged with a technical foul, or is politely "pleading" his case to me.

For all I care, if they change the rule and let them mosey on down to the endline, that wouldn't bother me one bit, but until the NFHS changes the rule, I'm enforcing the present rule, when it comes to my attention, which is usually when he's "yelling" at me. If he's not "yelling", I really don't pay too much attention to a couple of lines on the court, except the the couple of times a year when he gets in my way as I'm about to become the new lead.

[Ignats75]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

This is just a rule they need to get rid of. Let the damn coaches roam the sideline. What difference does it make. As long as they stay with the 28 foot mark, why do we care where they stand or sit? I am so sick and tired of this stupid rule. It just becomes a distraction to where our focus really should be.

Peace

:clap: I agree. I generally tell coaches during the coach's meeting that If they aren't yelling at us, we aren't looking at them.