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Originally Posted by JRutledge
This is the very reason I cannot stand it when people are so adamant to advocate the stop sign. For one it did not work here and no matter how much the official is in the right, you look like an aggressor.
Secondly you have absolutely no idea what was said to that official. For all you know he could have said, "You are the worst f#$K### official I have ever seen and I wish you would go to hell!!" Unless you heard exactly what was said, you cannot sit here and tell anyone what should or should not have been done.
This just goes to show the gesture of the "stop sign" did not work if anything it might have incited the coach to react or say something out of line. I can accomplish the same thing by walking up slowly to a coach with my hand over my face and say just about anything and no one knows what I said except the coach and me. I could threaten a coach. I could curse them out. Or I could just say OK and everything I say looks non-threatening and not confrontational. You can warn a coach in this way and get the desired result. I must be doing something right. I have not had to T many coaches this year and in previous years. And I do not use the stop sign.
Peace
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I guess everyone knows that I agree with this.
See how this turned out? The all powerful stop sign didn't work at all. What would have been the difference if he would have just talked to the coach? We are humans and they are humans, I'm often concerned about why we can't communicate in a manner where neither one is put on the defensive.
I just emailed my assignor about unsportsmanlike behavior by coaches last night. We need to make sure sportsmanship is appropriate for high school or college basketball across the board. It has already got to the point where kids are doing things deserving of technical fouls, but the legal system will step in. Where is all this going?
BTW, IMO all good officials have some level of arrogance.