Coaches on the Field

[sportswriter]

Originally posted by don16954
We also told the coaches that if they did not move back when asked by wing official, then sideline warnings or other appropriate action would be taken.

I think that folks are missing something here - safety. For all involved. If a play flows off the field on the sideline, you should have space. Without space, you have opposition players running into each other's team on the bench, mayhem and ugliness.

The best thing I ever did to get a coach to listen to me when I wanted space on the sideline was simply go where I was supposed to go on a turnover. I ran the head coach over, because he was on *my* sideline. He never bothered me again. If I had been tripped or knocked over, I'd have dinged him with an unsportsmanlike. (This was the team's first-ever game, so I didn't want to be a complete *******.)