TexasTerror
January 9th, 2008, 10:57 PM
Former Lamar coach and current Wagner coach Mike Deane has a special seat belt installed on his seat on the Wagner bench. Perhaps a few other coaches can get one installed...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The request was simple enough.
A few days before his team's first scrimmage in November, Mike Deane, Wagner College's white-haired, red-faced coach, placed a work order to the school's facilities crew. As straightforward as it was strange, he wanted a worker to leave campus and buy two car seat belts. They were not to be installed in his car, though. Rather one would be rigged to a white, padded chair on his bench, and the other would serve as a backup. In response to the NCAA's announcement in October that it would make bench decorum a point of emphasis, Deane planned to take a stand while sitting down.
"I got the belt so that I would not cost my team," says Deane, who won his 400th game last month at home against Maryland-Eastern Shore. "The NCAA put a bounty out on coaches by saying [the bench rule] is a point of emphasis. They are going to reward referees with preferential postseason placement who enforce it the most."
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/kevin_armstrong/01/04/wagner.buckle/index.html
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The request was simple enough.
A few days before his team's first scrimmage in November, Mike Deane, Wagner College's white-haired, red-faced coach, placed a work order to the school's facilities crew. As straightforward as it was strange, he wanted a worker to leave campus and buy two car seat belts. They were not to be installed in his car, though. Rather one would be rigged to a white, padded chair on his bench, and the other would serve as a backup. In response to the NCAA's announcement in October that it would make bench decorum a point of emphasis, Deane planned to take a stand while sitting down.
"I got the belt so that I would not cost my team," says Deane, who won his 400th game last month at home against Maryland-Eastern Shore. "The NCAA put a bounty out on coaches by saying [the bench rule] is a point of emphasis. They are going to reward referees with preferential postseason placement who enforce it the most."
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/kevin_armstrong/01/04/wagner.buckle/index.html