Thanks for the feedback everyone.
Maybe this is twisted, but I feel like a "real ref" now.
As for the "average" I asked about above, I didnt mean to say I think there should be some average number but more to get feedback along the lines of "I go a whole season with no coach Ts" or "I wind up whacking about 3 a season." Or "it took me 40 games before I whacked my first." Stuff like that.
About the silly Ts, the one I described about the girl just coming onto the court after a throw in. Not preventable.
The other one (wrong number) was at a tournament which wasnt worked by normal scorers/timers from our association and was done by volunteers (students). I checked the book. Looked fine. 12 and 10 (or whatever it was) on the court warming up, 12 and 10 in the book. I asked the coaches at 10 minutes "both of you good with your entries in the book." Got "yep" from both. The real problem was that it should have been caught when the girl first reported, giving the coach the chance to not play her. But the book didnt notice until I called a foul on "white 32" (or whatever). Book gives a horn and summons me over. "There is no white 32 in the book." I go back on the court, ask the fouler to spin around to see her numbers, confirmed white 32. My partner had come over, I said "I dont think I have a choice on this one." He nodded. Whistle, T, because they were student scorers I gave more detail: "administrative technical on white, charged to the team but not to the coach, counts towards the team foul count, red gets 2 shots and the ball." Then as my partner went to start administration I went to white coach who was at the end of the bench and said "now is the time to double check your numbers and make any other fixes you see since you get one T regardless of the number of fixes and you arleady got your 1 T." His girls (it was a girls JV game) were already ribbing him about some promise he had made to them to never get a T and how he now had to do something (dont know what but they seemed to think it was hillarious).
Clark