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Originally posted by sportsannouncing
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I've never T'ed anyone up and I had chances. Doing men's college fraternity games is very physical. I had one player who complained about getting fouled then would foul hard. He spent the last 15 seconds of the game clapping in my face. Now let me ask you these questions.
1. What good would it have done to T him up?
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1. None, no good whatsoever. Because
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-Although I have not given many T's I feel the need for it to be used. Now that I have been a ref a bit I am embarrassed to admit that when I was a coach I was a whiner. Quite often when I didn't like a call I would chirp in my little useless opinion. In fact I would voice my opinion on most calls. I did not go on and on-- just a couple of seconds each time enough to be heard. However embarrased I am to admit that I think it is also partially the refs fault for allowing me to do that. We usually had the same group of refs who were good guys but during the game I would ride them. I never got abusive, never used foul language and consequently never got a T. In fact I never even got any warnings -except once from a different ref we had never had before. He warned me and I shut up. --Looking back our usual refs allowed me to ride them-I knew what I could get away with and I did. I was a jerk sometimes-and that is my fault- but if they warned me or T'd me just once I would have shut up.
Now one of the coaches I may ref next year is my former assistant. He is now the V boys coach at a rival school. As I kind of trained him and he was reffed by the same guys that allowed me to whine he is now a whiner. So how do you deal with coaches like I was? Once you warned them to stop chirping do you T them next time they open their mouth? I am enclided to let it go if they shut up for awhile after the warning-but worried that weakens the warning if they can start whining again 5-10 minutes later.
[Edited by oc on Oct 14th, 2003 at 12:08 AM]