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Originally Posted by iref4him
I was watching a boys vasity game last night (at my daughter's school) on my night off from calling. Midway in the 2nd quarter, there is a large slap at halfcourt - it was hard to tell if the defensive player (B1) hit the offensive player's (A1's) hand while holding the ball or hit his arm. A1 throws an elbow and misses. The Trail official calls a player control foul. Both coaches go ballistic. Team B's coach wants a technical for throwing the elbow and missing. Team A's coach wants the slap on the arm called. BOth coaches are at the scorer's table complaining. The Trail official and Team B's coach got nose to nose and started to vehemently disagree with each other. It appeared to last 30 seconds or so. Then the Trail official blows his whistle calls a 'T' on Team B's coach, who now must be restrained. The assistants get him to the bench.
At halftime, the official said he had no choice but to 'T' him up. I asked him why did you not just walk away. He said no coach is going to push him around. I ask the other 2 officials why did they not go rescue their partner. They said they thought he had everything under control and the coached deserved it. I said he may have, but going nose to nose with a coach never looks good. Any thoughts??
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Hard to comment without seeing it or hearing the dialogue. C and lead probably didn't have enough time to get there initially and didn't want the situation to appear bigger than it was. Thirty seconds does seem like a long time though. Did the T make the game better? Did things calm down? I assume you knew the crew and were in the locker room at half.
Personally, I don't want other officials coming in on our halftime. There are exceptions of course.
From your description, I'd like to think I'd just ring him up without the emotion.
Had this coach been on the edge the whole half? Had he been given a stop sign?
I wasn't there, so It's hard to make a value judgement sitting at my keyboard.