Seeking positive advise to deal with coaches

[mick]

Originally Posted by ref2coach

Mick. Dealing with the coach is misconduct. So the possibility exists that IF while the ball is in play AND the misconduct is so serious that the referee stops play "only" to deal the misconduct then in NFHS & NISOA you would have an IFK for the non offending team at the time you stopped play. If play was already stopped the reason for the stoppage dictates the restart. Regarding ejection, yes if behavior is Abusive or additional misconduct lead to a second caution.

Thanks, ref2coach.

It seems [by the implication of other posts] that the philosophy is to keep play in progress and to keep the clock ticking rather than stopping to have a word with an offending coach.

With that it mind, does the anger of the coaches needlessly build to a more fevered pitch while the officials await a stoppage, which seemingly could be "a while" ? Would a "stoppage" in action, in response to a more innocent request (ie., not yet serious misconduct) to have a quick word possibly help keep a coach in the game and possibly make all participants have a more enjoyable game ?