Official Head Coach
 

I had an interesting situation in my BV game last night. It was brought to my attention (by my assignor) that a team from outside of our usual coverage area was using a lay/community coach to act as their head coach. I was told specificly to not let them do that. They have a certified teacher who is listed as their official head coach but according to the state of Georgia a head coach for any Varsity team MUST be a certified teacher. Other associations have been letting the community coach act as the head coach (speaking at the captains meeting, standing up on bench, calling timeouts). I talked to both the real head coach and the lay coach before the game and informed them that the certified head coach was the only one who would be allowed to stand up on the bench, call timeouts, etc. Is there any rule that backs this up or is this just a state by state thing?

State thing.

We do not control by rule who acts as head coach, the school does. And unless you have a local rule or policy, then officials stay out of this completely especially when it comes to their certification or not. I am not sure how you would verify this information anyway.

Peace

Bad enough we're the Uniform Police.....
 

I'm not going here either. I'll let the state/school admin work this out. As long as they have an adult on the bench, I'm going to "assume" they're good to go and been approved by someone in the administration.

Thanks for the insight. This was the way I was going to handle it but once my assignor contacted me beforehand I figured I should probably say something.

The question is there a policy to find this out? Otherwise how can an assignor ask you to find something out that you cannot easily verify? I guess you could ask but just like anything there is motive to lie or misrepresent their standing. So there has to be some policy in place or you are just window dressing.

Peace