[JRutledge]

Originally posted by Dahlia Weinzoff
I am looking for some direction, possible a rule book, website, citation, etc.

You will not find anything but opinions here. This is not covered.

Originally posted by Dahlia Weinzoff
My husband coached our 8th grade son in a local recreation basketball league. There were two teenage officials. One official was the opposing coaches son. (His wife kept the book). We feel the game was not called fairly. One of our players was knocked to the ground and hit in the face. My husband raised his voice two times to protest calls. (one was with 30 seconds left and it was a one point game). He was given two technical fouls by the coaches refereee son, ejected from the game, and suspended from coaching two games.

According to the Upper Saddle River basketball association, there is no rule book.

This is a local issue. There is nothing that any rulebook that I am aware of covers this issue. Each state, each league has a set of conduct and participation rules that can be widely different. Most of here only deal with HS and College ball. So we cannot answer your question, unless someone is familiar with this league.

Originally posted by Dahlia Weinzoff

What about the referee training? My daughter ref'd soccer and said that she would not be able to ref her fathers game unless the other coach agreed before the game.

Refer to what I said above. But considering this is a "local" rec. league, not sure that is always possible.

Originally posted by Dahlia Weinzoff

We are just looking to write a letter protesting what happened, and are looking for some offical game or referee related rule that we can cite.

You can only do it on the basis of your league's rules. Nothing we can answer.

Originally posted by Dahlia Weinzoff

My husband is a well respected coach and was appalled with the refs behavior. He was ejected from the gym with 30 seconds left of play, a 1 point game, as my husband was walking out of the gym and another father was walking to the coaches area, the coaches wife who is keeping the book, told her son the ref that one of our players had five fouls. She did not tell anyone on our team, the player did not know, and next thing you know, the other team spent the last half minute shooting teachnical fouls shots to win the game.

This is a one sided story. It is basically their word against yours. You need to take this up with the League Administrators, not us. For one, someone assigned the game and that is the person to talk to. Because leagues like this have usually very inexperienced officials and officials that are just learning. Mainly that is because the officials that have experience might have college or other obligations surrounding their schedule. Most officials doing these type of leagues at this time of the year, are ones that are not licensed with the state or they are working on typical off days.

Also, your husband should have known better. That is not the time to get a T and certainly not the time to have a meltdown if you want to win the game. You had a chance until that incident. He should have got that earlier in the game if he was so disgusted.

Peace