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Originally posted by JRutledge
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Originally posted by blindzebra
What's to worry about? It's an easy T. The player is accusing your partner of a racial bias and implying that you will have his back, also based on race.
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Who said anything about being worried? You choose to make a scene and now have to explain a hefty accusation.
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Originally posted by blindzebra
It's no different than dropping the N-word on somebody while he's out there, but it's okay if only you could hear it, and it won't show up on tape.
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Please do not start those N-word comparisons. That is more insulting than what the kid implied.
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Originally posted by blindzebra
Not to mention that your other 4 foul calls on this player will also be on tape, and how do you defend a ticky-tac call on him when you've let the same thing go on other players when/if your assignor asks?
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Who said anything about calling ticky tack fouls? What I have found in my experience is that the kid that takes little or no responsibility for fouls and his actions will usually do the same thing again. I will not have to make up anything to make a point.
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Originally posted by blindzebra
He called my partner a racist, so I fouled him out. Yep, that's a much better solution.
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He did not call him a racist.  Save that drama. He implied that because "we are the same race," I would give him a break. He just let me know that he cannot take any responsibility for his actions, so I will make sure that anytime he blinks wrong I got a foul on him. No benefit of the doubt or ruling what might be considered incidental. Now I have any push, hold or pull that he makes. Any screen he makes is not perfect, I have a foul. All it takes is just two fouls and he will be on the bench anyway. If he plays the game by the rules (no pushing and holding) then he has nothing to worry about. This is no different than if I have two teams that almost had a fight during the game. You adjust your officiating to the knuckleheads that do not want to play by the rules.
Peace
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Your take from post one, was sprinkled with comments like.
On the tape, explaining to the assignor, yet now you say who's worried?
You are not addressing an issue by dealing with the problem, you are altering the way you are calling the game to deal with the player and not WHAT THE PLAYER DID.
This is not anything like changing mid-game for rough play, that is calling more to STOP out of control play. That's addressing the problem by calling what's causing the problem.
Your approach to this player is not, you are covering yourself from explaining what the T was for, and not dealing with the kid's behavior.
Like it or not the kid DID imply that your partner was racially biased, I don't care HOW he said it, he said it.
Let's add a wrinkle. A non-vanilla sprinkle player hears what the kid said, and you being a sprinkle don't penalize it, and in your original post you did not even go as far as to verbally address the issue, now you call a close one on a non-sprinkle player. Did you not just open the door for this player to also question your integrity?