Official Head Coach

[rickman5]

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?