Coaches and the starting line

[Swampdude]

I hate to ask this, but I've searched Q&A and re-read the rules regarding coaches and the player starting line. I see nothing written stating coaches cannot cross that line "ever". Yet I've heard it now from 2 regionals that refs were telling coaches their team would get disqualified if the coach crossed that starting line during a match. I don't know how it got started but I'd like it to get cleared up before our next comp. Hopefully someone from FIRST will see this and broadcast it to the refs that this rule doesn't exist. Or do I need to practice my downhill skiing stance?



This guy on the right has a good duck foot thing goin, but the other 2 - rule breakers?