What should have happened here?

[Aclone]

Youngstown State Coach Apologizes After Hitting UNI Player on Sidelines Saturday

IOWA — Youngstown State University says Tim Johnson will no longer be allowed on the sidelines this football season after he struck a University of Northern Iowa player who ran out-of-bounds …

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No longer on sideline this season.

Oh, the horror.

 

[SCyclone]

I like the way he keeps his hand in his pocket to make it look less egregious.

 

[isufbcurt]

Yawn!!!!!!!!!!

 

[cygrads]

I voted to eject but just off sideline for the game but it wasn't all that bad. I suppose something needs done just to discourage this in the future.

 

[MeowingCows]

Youngstown State Coach Apologizes After Hitting UNI Player on Sidelines Saturday

IOWA — Youngstown State University says Tim Johnson will no longer be allowed on the sidelines this football season after he struck a University of Northern Iowa player who ran out-of-bounds …

who13.com

No longer on sideline this season.

That's fair. Can't fault the player at all, it's the sideline person's responsibility to get out of the way. Members of staff should know not to inject themselves into something stupid like this, they aren't kids.

 

[cycloneman003]

I'm kind of surprised by the majority of the reactions on here to this. I understand that it wasn't "that bad" in terms how hard he hit the UNI player, but you 100% cannot let **** like that fly. Any player who's run out of bounds is clearly not expecting to be shoulder checked by a coach. The coach intentionally leaning in to knock down a defenseless player is just not something that you can shrug off and say "eh the player needs to be tougher". Not a fireable offense the first time around, but certainly should have been a flag, tossed from the game and punishment from conference.

 

[dualthreat]

"No longer on the sideline" is the appropriate action. The coach should be reprimanded internally and he's already admitted his mistake.

Time for everybody to quit making a bigger deal out of this than it is and move on.