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This is a delicate situation to say the least. My personal opinion is this. I feel that this should be just called a direct technical foul on the coach for unsportsmanlike conduct and NOT an ejection.
You are in the closing seconds of a ballgame and the technical is going to give the other team 2 shots and the ball at the division line opposite the table. This penalty alone is going to upset the coach and he is going to have some choice words for you and I dont think this is severe enough to warrant the ejection.
Now if the coach already has been assessed a direct technical foul in the game or two indirect technicals for something earlier in the game, and then you call this technical foul, he or she is ejected and must sit out the next two contests. (by NC rules)
As for the coach tripping someone running by, he will get a wave bye bye from me, because he is gone, that would constitute the immmediate ejection. I would be more than happy to go through the paperwork for this ejection.
[Edited by ncref on Sep 23rd, 2004 at 02:15 AM]
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