For a coach to stand at the beginning of the game, he is supposed to sit within the confines of the 12 foot box. If he is T'd, then he loses his standing privaleges. If a coach chooses to sit the whole game or after he's been T'd, he may sit anywhere within the confines of the bench. Then he can only stand to get a sub, call time out, or applaud a good play. He must then sit back down. An assistant coach can only stand to applaud a good play. He cannot go to the scorer's table for any reason. The head coach can go to the scorer's table for the purposes of getting a correctable error corrected. If he is wrong, then he will be charged with a timeout. If he is out of timeouts, then he will receive another T.

A lot of fans do not know the rules, which is acceptable since they don't have a rule book, but a lot of coaches don't know them either but they do have a book, but choose not to read it.