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Guys, it's okay that you would do it different from me. I'm not losing any sleep over it. Of course I view the home team coach as a fan, and as a fan I would give the home team a technical based on what the coach said to me. However, I would have to know that this fan is the head coach and in this scenario, I would pull the trigger. So the bigger argument is not that I pulled the trigger and gave the home team a undeserved technical. The bigger argument is why is the head coach from the home team insulting me by saying I will never work another game in this gym. That is a direct personal insult to me.
Now people like JR looks for problems, look to throw officials under the bus. He would completely side with the coach/school here, and I would never work another game at that facility again or get games cut from my schedule. The only reason I bring this up is because I have been around. I am closer to 50 than I am 49. I am a African American male in this country. I have experienced discrimination and biasness first hand. Now, you wonder why you don't get an assignment, it because of assigners that think like this guy. Oh, my guy didn't follow proper procedures, I just won't give him any more games. It happens folks. That's why the industry needs more balance, more people from different backgrounds to give it proper prospective. You see, if I'm the assigner and the coach complained to me about the procedure afterwards, and let's say the JV team lost by one point. To me, I'm not looking to throw my guys under the bus. I'm going to support them in situations where I believe they should never have to deal with. In other words, you get your coach in line and this doesn't happen. Furthermore, we're even. Your coach messed up and my guy arguably follow improper procedures, depending on which way you want to look at it. I'll say it's a wash, like a double foul. I'll say you drop your complaint about my official and I won't file a complaint with the league about improper conduct from your coach.
Here's another fallacy in JR logic. If the A/D and/or HC complains that a college procedure was done over a HS procedure. I would say, come on guys. Which would you rather have? Would you rather have 2 new referees who's just learning working your JV games or would you rather have a veteran crew of a mix of college/varsity HS officials working your JV game? The guy was available and he wanted to work so I mix him in. Realistically, no school administrator is going to squat at that. They will take an experience college guy over 2 new guys any day working their JV games. Even if they do dink up a procedure once or twice. Different story if it happens in a varsity game.
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