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The coach had been basically quiet the whole game, and had protested a couple calls, but nothing beyond a sort of firm question. This was the only real outburst, so I guess I wasn't at MY threshhold yet. I did let the assistant coach stand, but it was only briefly while he grabbed the coach's arm, and the "statician" (coach's wife as it turns out) grabbed the other arm, and they sat him down. They all agreed that it was a bad call (although it wasn't) but they hadn't lost their tempers and so were using diplomacy to avoid a bigger problem. It wasn't loud enough to attract the attention of my partner who was lining up the girls for the free throw. He was out on the floor a step or three, but didn't keep walking as he yelled. The funny part was that the site supervisor who came and talked to me afterwards had been coaching the day before and had spent the whole game he had with me on the floor. WHen he told me that the coach on the floor was an automatic T, I said, "You didn't correct me yesterday when I didn't call it on you!"
Since the coach didn't have a lot more to say, I felt I had handled it pretty well, in spite of the criticism of the site supervisor.
Thinking back over the whole thing, he didn't impugn my veracity, my integrity or my heredity. He just kept yelling over and over, "Why is that not a foul? How can that not be a foul?" After hearing what y'all say, I still think it just wasn't a technical. So thanks folks -- another example where the board is helpful and up-building.
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