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Originally posted by Jimgolf
I've noticed that some refs seem proud of T'ing up coaches, while others seem equally proud of rarely doing so.
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Put me down as "none of the above". Technical fouls are just another foul that comes up in the course of a game. Every referee sets their own personal line or limit. When it's crossed, then that's when they're gonna start T'ing people up. Pride doesn't enter into the equation usually. You just do what you have to do to keep the game under control, and make sure that it's being played in at least a half-way sporting manner. You also have to differentiate between what the usual expectations for conduct reasonably should be at each age level too. Certainly, you call the game much differently when you're dealing with NCAA level players vs. middle school kids.
Personally, the coach of a 14 and under team, as in this article, is gonna get very little slack from me. If he wants a T to prove some arcane point to himself, his kids or parents- hey, that's fine with me. I'm gonna keep him real happy- and in a hurry too. He's also gonna sit his butt on the bench from then on, and he's not gonna get up when he's not supposed to. And if he's planning on making any further points to me, he'd better plan on doing so from the parking lot. I just personally believe that the coaches of the younger age groups should never be worrying about making any kind of point to the officials. They got too much to worry about actually coaching their own kids, without wasting any of their valuable time on us.
[Edited by Jurassic Referee on Jun 22nd, 2004 at 05:58 PM]