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Originally posted by Texas Aggie
WAY too much talking to the coach. They will be just like little kids to test your resolve if you tell them. You must act if the rules are violated and ignore what is petty. While you aren't necessarily there to earn anyone's respect, if the coach's behavior is costing him or her control of their team, then you must act.
I worked prior to any coaching box in HS. I basically only said to the coach two things, other than perhaps answering a question: 1) "Coach, I need you to have a seat." and 2) (if necessary) "Coach, I need you to retain (or gain) control of your team, and I need you to do that immediately." If it got to the point where something else needed to be said, in 9 out of 10 times, it got to the point of a T. And I honestly did not T coaches very often.
The key is to maintain control of the game. You aren't trying to control everyone's actions, but the game and players must be kept under your control. The problem is that once control is lost, scattering technicals like raffle chances may not get it back. Easier said than done, obviously, but you lose control by trying to reason with a coach. That's not your job.
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I couldn't agree more TexasAggie, the only problem is that too many officials try to reason too much and that leads to the coach's poor behavior. A lot of times I get to be "the bad guy" because my partners won't TCB with the coach, so I ultimately have to. I won't however, take action over my partner's head, as in this case. I thought it was weak of my partner to let the blatant action by the coach go, and I brought up the situation here because I wanted to see if others would have thought an ejection justified (of course I'd already meted out the 1st T after a couple "talks" from my partner followed my stop sign). I'm no fan of giving Ts and it wears on me to do it, but I think that technicals, especially at lower level games (JV like this) make the overall quality of sportsmanship and basketball better over the long term.