When the varsity part of our scrimmage began Friday, we saw a drone flying overhead. We found the operator on the sideline, a kid, and told him he couldn’t fly the drone during the scrimmage. The home team started off on defense for the first series, but when they went to offense for the second series the drone took off again. When we told the home team coach that UIL rules prevent us from allowing the drone to fly overhead, he pointed to the visiting coach and said “yeah I know, but he said it’s ok with him.” Huh? We then told him that he can have his drone, but he’d be doing the scrimmage without us. He just couldn’t seem to understand why we wouldn’t allow it. I think we did the right thing, but why can’t some coaches get it through their heads that we have to enforce the rules?
