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Originally posted by TimTaylor
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Originally posted by Smitty
What seems to be apparent in lots of the questions people write about when we're on the hairy edge of calling a T about something is we're concerned with what other people will think, namely other officials or evaluators who may be watching. I'm not referring to coaches/players/fans. That bugs me, as I feel the same way. I don't really know how to resolve this for myself, but I wish I just had more confidence not to care so much about what others will think and just do what I believe is the right thing to do in some of those iffy situations. You'd think I'd have figured it out after 12 years...
[Edited by Smitty on Jan 7th, 2005 at 12:48 PM]
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Actually Smitty, this never even crossed my mind. I try to give the kids the benefit of the doubt unless they show me they don't deserve it, and the fact we hadn't really had any problems with either team up to this point was probably the deciding factor in letting it go. My mistake - next time I'll know better.......
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Sorry Tim, I actually wasn't trying to make a comment regarding your initial post specifically. More as a general feeling I get on some of these iffy calls and when I read other people mentioning these judgement situations where we could handle things in one of many ways, a T being one of them.
I think my personal frustration boils down to a situation last season, my first in the PBOA, where I had a Boy's JV game and the visiting coach was complaining, I gave him the stop sign and he continued to complain so I whacked him. At halftime, one of the varsity refs follows my partner and me into our room and starts lambasting me about T-ing up the coach. He's telling me I had no business calling the T. I was stunned, as I have never had this happen to me before, let alone at halftime of my game. So I'm trying to explain why I did it, come to find out the guy was standing on the far side of the court, next to the bleachers when this happened - in other words about as far away from where my T occurred as possible. He admitted he didn't see what led up to the call, nor did he hear what the coach had said. He just read me the riot act. My partner backed me up 100% to this guy. It shook me up and I couldn't focus very well for the second half.
So even though this was an isolated event, it shook me up and I can only hope it never happens again. Now that I'm more familiar with the association - this was the only guy I have met that has been anything less than great to work with or be around - I would handle it a lot differently if anyone pulls that crap again.