[Gimlet25id]

Was coming back from a game last night and one of my partners and myself was discussing the best way to handle this.

Wanted to throw this out to the community. In Indiana the coach's determine who works the State tournament by voting on all officials who have met some prescribed requirements to be on the voting list. The coach's have 5 different ratings they can give a official that they are voting for. Poor (1) point, Fair (2), Good (3), Excellent (4), Superior (5). The IHSAA then adds the total number of the officials score and divides that number by the total number of votes to come up with an average. SO naturally if you want to move up through the tournament then your looking for the highest possible average...5 would be the absolute highest average. So if a coach votes you POOR then it significantly lowers your average and really hurts your chances of advancing.

Here's the scenario; One of my partners was working a BV game. The A team wins by 10 points. As the officials are walking off the floor the B team coach yells loud enough for the surrounding people to hear, @ my partner across the floor and says, "that will be a poor vote for you."

In Indiana if that kind of comment happens while the game is in play then it is a automatic "T". When we got to talking about this my partner had said that if the B teams coach would've won either by 1 or 2 points he would've went ahead and WHACKED him and put the losing team on the line to shoot. Since they lost by 10 points he didn't fell like he could penalize him for his action.He did report the action to the IHSAA and they asked him why he didn't give a "T." I was wondering...since the officials haven't actually left the playing confines of the floor if we could legally still WHACK this idiot even though the game was decided for the A team. Instead of the coach thinking he can take a jab @ us for free we, WHACK him and get it on the books to send into the State office.

Keep in mind if you do give a unsportsmanlike Technical on the coach then we are required to send in a report explaining the incident. Supposedly that would then prevent this coach from voting on the calling official who "WHACKED him/her.