coaches box

[RonRef]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

When I was the Referee on my crew last year, I would in the coaches meetings tell the coaches that we enforced sideline decorum as instructed through the State Association. That was their first warning and then after that if we threw a sideline warning, they believed we were serious. Now it helped us because our state took a very low tolerance for coaches being on the field.

If you do not have that kind of support, tell the coach one or two times then start throwing yellow. Throwing yellow seems to work and send the right message.

Peace

JRut has the only thing that really works, coaches will abuse us on this until we hit them with a flag. "Get back" coaches are really good until the game starts; they are good for one or two "get backs." We need to enforce this before one of our wings officials gets hurt, not after they blow their knee out. When that flag goes up for the warning they think they are getting a yardage penalty and when they see it is only a warning they seem to be a bit thankful and now they are willing to cooperate with us.