coaching box

[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

[Adam]

I don't understand why schools don't paint that in. FCOL, this was a newly painted floor, and they didn't put it in. I don't get it.

[just another ref]

There is a school in our area which recently had its floor, among other things, redone, after damage from a tornado. The floor is immaculate. The coaching boxes are in their proper places, but the benches are not. They straddle the division line, one on each side of the court.

[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.