Quote:
Originally posted by Kaliix
Last year I coached a middle school girls basketball team. Considering what I had to work with, we did well and won more than we lost.
End of the season comes and we go to play in a local tournament. We are playing against one of the teams that eventually made the finals and I could tell from warm ups that we were going to be lucky to keep this one close.
Game starts, first possesion for the other team and my best and tallest player picks up a questionable foul, one of those that could be called but one I have seen let go many times.
Second free throw of the shooting foul is missed, players going for the rebound and my best player gets called for a cheap contact foul on the rebound. I was just as surprised as she was that a foul was called.
As the game progresses, I can sense that we are just not getting any calls. My kids are getting knocked around and get nothing. A little contact the other way and they get a whistle. The parents are getting frustrated because of it.
Now, one of my kids spots up for jump shot, defender goes right at her and "blocks" the shot. I put blocks in quotes because it happened at the other end of the floor and I could clearly hear the slap of flesh sound and see that she was fouled. No call!
Immediately I'm now really aggravated and I yell at the ref, "Come on! Call 'em both ways!!"
So what does he do, he T's me up!
For that?!?!
Does that sound like something that warrants a technical?
I was working the refs a little before hand, but nothing excessive and nothing worse than an "Aw, come on!" or a "Looked like some contact to me?!?"
|
I've waited to respond to this because many of the things I would have said were already said, but this was not.
You said your team was overmatched, "We'd be lucky to keep it close." I think what you were hoping for was the officials HELPING your cause, but when that did not happen you wanted the officiating to be an excuse for your team losing.
Here is a what happened to me a few years ago. Boys JV game, the home coach was chirping from the first call and he got a T in the second quarter. His team was complaining on calls, too and fell behind by 15 at haltime.
Early in the third, with his team down 20, the coach got another T and was ejected. The varsity coach took over, never said a word, and neither did the players. The home team came back and won by 10 points.
As coach you set the tone, if you "work" the refs, the players act accordingly.
FYI, the AD came in after the game and apologized for the JV coaches behavior and told us he just fired him.
