coaches box

[Mick Jagger]

Hey guys...not sure if I'm understanding everyone. If the team is in the team box and the coaches are in the coaches box....and the wing official is working off the field, feet touching SL, are you going to issue a warning/flag for brushing/bumping into a coach who is in the coaches box?

[DJ_NV]

If a coach is in his coaching box but basically standing with his toes on the sideline, then yes, along with many other factors that have already been stated, there is a potential for a SW. Another thing is that how many teams really have only 3 coaches in the box if I can't effectively do my job, though I'm more inclined to issue a SW when there are 6 or 7. Personally, I really don't care how many they have if 1) they're not constantly in my way, and 2) aren't *****ing all the time. When either of those start to occur, then I start to tighten up the rule a bit. The main thing in my opinion is that once the ball is live, there's not much they can do but watch so they need to be out of my way and field of vision, then during the dead-ball period, I'll stay out of there way within reason.

[RonRef]

Originally Posted by Mick Jagger

Hey guys...not sure if I'm understanding everyone. If the team is in the team box and the coaches are in the coaches box....and the wing official is working off the field, feet touching SL, are you going to issue a warning/flag for brushing/bumping into a coach who is in the coaches box?

This wouldn't be a foul. We are talking about having coaches and player where they aren't supposed to be. Where I live they can only have 3 coaches in the first box, they always have more. Most coaches like to move farther and farther out on the field to talk to their players and then they don't return to the boxs.

[mcrowder]

Originally Posted by Mick Jagger

Hey guys...not sure if I'm understanding everyone. If the team is in the team box and the coaches are in the coaches box....and the wing official is working off the field, feet touching SL, are you going to issue a warning/flag for brushing/bumping into a coach who is in the coaches box?

Hey Mick, you need to incorporate a song lyric in all of your posts.

I would NEVER pick this nit. Not if I wanted to work again. Seriously - would this help or harm your ability to work with your sideline? Fix the egregious, and fix the things that prevent you from doing your job. Leave the rest alone. (One exception I can remember. Had a coach chirp in my ear for 3 quarters that the OTHER team was too far out on the field - he would not listen to me saying it was not my issue, it was the issue of the other side. He kept on and on. So I went in, mentioned it to R, who forwarded it to the other side. And you can be damn sure I was strict as possible on his side the rest of the game. I think he got the point, as he apologized as the game was winding down.)

[HLin NC]

The "get back" coach in HS football is as useless a thing as there is. Invariably they stand around and watch the game like everyone else instead of doing the "assigned" job.

Our older fields here are pretty narrow. I try to work with the staff's as best I can and will flag the sideline warning if I feel its the only way to start getting someone's attention.

What tickles me is when you start telling people to get back, the coaches start yelling immedately at the players. I love it when I get to say "Coach your players are fine, its your staff and support personnel I want out of the way."

The biggest problem I have now is the fact that our assigner told us last year to arrive earlier so the R& U can go track down the coaches and have the pre-game conference. The rest of us stay behind in our room and have to wait. Supposedly the assigner has developed the theory that the coaches don't want to talk to us 30 min. on the field before game time since they're "busy".

We've argued unsuccessfully so far that they don't want to talk to us period at any time except when they're *****ing during the game so who cares. The R & U can't find the coaches an hour before game time anyway. I end up never getting a chance to speak to the HC on my side until right before kick-off now.