Silly Contradiction

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

In the two snipped situations below, does anyone else think the opposite rulings are a bit silly.

SITUATION 6: Players A1 and B1 are fighting each other away from the ball and play is stopped. The head coach of Team A rushes onto the court to stop the fight.

RULING: ... The head coach is allowed to enter the court without being beckoned by an official when there is a fight so there is not a penalty assessed on him/her for this action. ....(4-19-4; 4-36; 10-4-5 Note)


SITUATION 8: A fight breaks out between A1 and B1 during a dead ball and clock-stopped situation. The assistant coach from Team A rushes onto the floor to assist with stopping the fight.

RULING: .... The assistant coach is assessed a flagrant technical foul and disqualified from the contest for entering the floor during the fight. The assistant coach is not allowed to enter the floor to help with stopping a fight....(4-19-4; 10-4-5)

If a coach is coming onto the floor to be of help, assistant or otherwise, there is NO WAY I will be calling a T on them. If anything, I'm going to thank them for helping get things under control.

I think it's a stretch to even allow them on the court if they are "beckoned."

The NCAAM rule is (I think) the same.

I agree that the rule should / could allow it, and one of our interpreters here suggested the same thing you did.

[Freddy]

State director, in online rules meeting which came out yesterday and is taken by both officials and coaches, offered the direction that assistant coaches were to remain on the sidelines to maintain control of the benches, presumably keeping the players from leaving the bench area.
That made sense to me. If they do.

[PG_Ref]

Part of the explanation given to us was that it would be better for the assisstant(s) to keep the bench in order ...