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Originally posted by ace
1) I would normally NEVER bail a coach out with a T because his team is down by 20+ points with 2 minutes left to go in the game. Which is why I told Hewitt that I wouldnt have t'd him had I know what the score was.
2) Soft stop sign ... Usually two hands (something a DI NCAA official taught me (Tim Marion) and isnt force ful just a light raising of the hands.
A hard stop sign usualy one handed is the typical STOP! sign. I knew the coach was loosing and I figured thats why he was on my case I just didnt know how bad.
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1) How exactly could you "bail" the coach out in situations like this? He ignored not one, but two stop signs from you. I'm with Camron on this one. Score and time remaining have got nothing to do with whether the coach deserves a T or not. The coach's actions are what determines whether he should be nailed or not, and nothing else. If you're gonna let the coach get away with his crap, then why bother to warn him at all? Btw, what would you expect a coach in the stands to say? My fellow coach really deserved that T? I'd take anything that any coach tells you with a BIG grain of salt.
2) Ace, what is the advantage of giving TWO stops signs, no matter what you might call them? You might as well forget about the first one, because it was NOT a stop sign. It wasn't even a warning because you didn't mean it. Do whatever works for you, but I've always found that if a coach knows that a warning really IS a warning, then they'll also know that they've only got themselves to blame if they choose to disregard that warning and subsequently get T'd up. Jmo, but I think that you're better off to be consistent with the players and coaches. Letting a coach get away with unsporting conduct because there is only a coupla of minutes left in the game is like drawing a line in the sand- and then erasing it and drawing a new line later on. How can the coach really know which of the lines that he crosses is gonna actually be the one that he's gonna get nailed on, if you keep moving the line on him?