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Regrets, I've Had A Few (Frank Sinatra, 1969) ...
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Originally Posted by BillyMac
I will admit that I have driven home from a few games regretting not charging a few technical fouls. Live and learn.
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From 2007:
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Originally Posted by BillyMac
Girls varsity prep school tournament game. Visiting coach had been complaining about calls most of the first half. Nothing worth a technical foul, but just a constant "nag". Just before halftime a visiting player is fouled, she falls to the floor, injured and crying, certainly enough to beckon the coach onto the court. He comes onto the court with his trainer. The trainer tends to the injured player. The coach "tends to us" and takes this opportunity to complain to both of us that we're not calling enough fouls, we're doing a terrible job, etc., quietly, not yelling. We move away from him, and he proceeds to follow us, so we move farther away, he goes back to his player. This behavior would have and should have deserved a technical foul under any other circumstance, but my partner and I discussed it and decided that we did not want to make a big deal and call a technical foul while the the player was still in pain on the floor, making every one believe that we were more concerned about the coach than the player's painful injury, but that we would give the coach no more latitude and would call a technical foul the next time he complained. Wouldn't you have it, the coach never said "boo" the entire second half.
We missed our chance. I learned from that experience. It will never happen again.
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Last edited by BillyMac; Sat Nov 16, 2024 at 02:31pm.
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