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Originally posted by Hawks Coach
I am not sure why this is s
"spoken like a true coach." I am NOT defending the coach, nor am I suggesting that his conduct is not fitting of an immediate dismissal. I have NEVER behaved in this manner, nor would I. I do not condone it.
I am speaking like a member of the military who has been second guessed after action about what I should have done by people who never saw the situation I was in. I think it is easy to fall back on rules, when actual situations may lead you to a different conclusion at that time.
And since you want to draw inferences about what I said not based on its content, but rather who and what I am, I feel compelled to add:
Spoken like a ref who won't listen to anything a coach has to say because he is a coach and the ref already has decided to ignore all coaches.
I deal with some refs like that. [/B]
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I'm in the military too and that does not matter one bit in this situation. Basketball is basketball and the coach should have been ejected. Now the coach probably thinks he can do the same thing to the next official. Is that fair to the next official. I made my statement "spoken like a coach" because you did defend him when you said he shouldn't have given him the second T. Someone should have done it! As far as your comment about me not listening to a coach, I go into every game with professionalism. If I did your game and you came up and told me who you were it wouldn't matter to me one bit because I don't know how you act as a coach and I'm not there to worry about that. The bottom line that gets lost in all of this is we are the caretakers of the game. If everything stayed legal and the ball never went out of bounds we wouldn't be needed. We are not there for you to yell at us nor are we there to make smart comments to coaches. When that interaction stays respectful then there is no problem. A coach is there to coach and we are there to ref. If a coach says something like this coach said that is outside MY boundries for acceptable behavior. Don't you know that the best coaches and refs are great communicators? The best coaches rarely, if ever, say or do something to come close to getting tossed. I don't go into a game looking to T a coach up. I don't care about the coach that much. I have listened to you and I think you are wrong but I can see why you would say what you said so I can take it.