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Originally posted by Forksref
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Originally posted by PIAA REF
After reading some of these posts about whacking people, throw her out and all the other comments it just seems that you all have a lot of T's. I just find this really uncommon. I at most might give 3 T's a year. Most of them are probably on players for unsportsmanlike things such as taunting or swearing at an opponent. You all seem to have many T's and give them frequently. Do you think that T's are given more often in different parts of the country. I hail from PA and I seldom give a T and neither does my chapter in whole (we have some that give the pretty easy). I was just curious. (But again I did start early this year, already had 1)
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Just because a thread about T's shows up doesn't mean a lot of T's are given out. I give about 1-2 a season and that's it. I use the "stop sign" a lot and that works most of the time.
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Another technique I find effective is listening and takling to the coach -- until he demonstrates that despite my good faith effort he has no interest in talking and listening. I mean, REALLY stand there and listen and then look him in the eye and talk to him. Use his first name and treat him like a human being. Encourage him to use your first name by making sure he gets it at the pregame. My partner(s) and I never walk on the floor without knowing the coaches' first names.
Lower level coaches haven't learned how to communicate with officials.....and many lower level officials haven't learned how to communicate with coaches.
The combination usually yields one of two scenarios when I'm sitting in the stands (watching before the varsity game):
(1) The officials take an enormous amount of crap and nothing is done -- a few weeks ago I saw a coach come out to the three point line and ream out a newer official for almost the entire timeout. I wanted to hide, it was so bad.
(2) Whack-a-thon.
Frankly, at the lower levels, I'd rather see (2) than (1). And at the upper levels, most coaches know that the behavior I described above would result in a quick T, so they don't act that way.
I worked 1 JV game last season as a last minute favor, and about five minutes in I ended up giving a coach a one-sided conversation about my expectations regarding his behavior.
No technical, although I would've been justified, but I just didn't think he understood how to act as a head coach because no official prior had laid down their expectations.
I used his name, talked to him like an adult, but let him know that screaming out every travel, every foul, etc., that he thought we missed simply wouldn't be tolerated. He stopped immediately. He thanked me after the game, which he lost.
Not that I don't call technicals.....because I certainly do, but I don't relish them the way I (unfortunately) did 15 or so years ago.
--Rich