Bench is next to table.

[Sharpshooternes]

This situation happened last year and I may face the same thing and have been thinking about it a lot.

Home team's bench set up proved to be challengin to our game. The 28 ft line or farthest spot from the endline for the coaching box is right smack in the middle of their bench. The bench actually was the front row of the bleachers which ran all the way to the scorer's table. (Not so for the visiting team as there is an aisle between their bench and the scorer's table. Home HC would stand up outside of the box but infront of his seat right next to the scorer's table, and would sometimes be leaning on the table. Visiting coach started to complain about it with 2 minutes left in the 4th corner. I tried to get the coach to either sit down or get back in the box, but he wanted to argue that because his bench was that close to the table he could be there as well. (I really didin't want to serve tome T this close to the end of the game without having had any issues before.

Coach did sit down and that was that but I have a high likelihood of being in that gym again this year. What are your thought on the layout and how to handle the coach in this situation. Thanks in advance.