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Originally posted by Kelvin green
My two cents.
In my mind there is a difference between being disqualified and being ejected. (I dont think the rule book actually distinguishes) A disqualified player to me is one who has played and now picks up his 5th personal foul, and has been DQ'd for the rest of the game.
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There is on formal definition for ejection, only disqualification. Whether from 5 fouls, 2 T's, or a flagrant foul, a player, coach or other bench personnel is disqualified.
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The adults who are ejected leave the floor area. High School players who have been ejected have to stay on the bench (so there is adequate supervision) but they have been ejected.
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The players do not have to stay on the bench. As an official, you can only send them to the bench. However, the coach, if they so choose, may send them out of the gym or to the locker room.
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They will not get more than 2T's from me. I cannot find in the book where someone can pick up more than 2 because they have been ejected and are non players at that point. If an ejected player is not giving you problems from the bench area, the team has three choices, get him under control... get his parents or other competent administrator to escort/supervise the player someplace else. ( for me it doesnt necessarily need to be outside the gym... it could be one row back and just sitting with them) or we go home. Ejected players and coaches are not going to make a mockery out of a game and turn it into a circus. By issuing more than 2T's to a player that's exactly what they have done is made the game a circus.
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Anyone on the bench is still bench personnel. There is nowhere in the book that limits a player to two T's. We, as officials, can not suggest that the coach should remove them in order for the game for continue. We can only penalize the action with a T, even if it is a 3rd, 4th. We must, for liability reasons, not even suggest that the coach remove the player. Hopefully, they will take that action on their own to avoid more T's.
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...but I am not going to look dopey by also having to include that I called 4 T's on one kid and caused ten point swing in a game.
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If the kid is continuing to make trouble, that is all you can do. DQ'd players are still bench personnel. I think the 3rd T should be called. The coach will get the indirect and that will probably be the end of it...the coach doesn't want indirect T's since 3 will get him DQ'd and out of the gym.