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Originally Posted by tjones1
No way should you have called a forfeit. You penalized Team B for their actions and that's all that needs to be done. Shoot the free throws and make the throw-in to end the game. Certainly not grounds for a forfeit, imo.
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tjones1:
I beg to differ, the actions of the Team B Head Coach and players, was a perfect example of when to forfeit the game, and I do not care what level the game is.
Three years ago, I had a boys' H.S. jr. varsity game. I charged Head Coach V with a direct technical foul in the second quarter for unsportsmanlike behavior. With just 55 seconds left in the game, Team V has the ball in its front court and is losing by four points. I am L opposite the ST and the ball is above the free throw line extended on the strong side, when V1 attempts a three-point field goal. V1's attempt is not good and during the scramble for the rebound, V2 (Team V's captain and the son the Head Coach) goes done with a knee injury just outside the free throw lane on the weak (Table) side of the court. The loose ball was going out of bounds on my endline on the weak side of the court. The ball goes out of bounds off of H1 and I stop the game for the violation as well as the injury. V-HC goes ballistic on my partner because there was no foul called against Team H when V2 went to the floor. While this is happening I am standing next to V2 and trying to get V-HC to direct his attention to V2's medical needs; at that point my partner charges V-HC with his second direct techincal foul of the game. There are 46 seconds left in the game at this time. Now V-HC goes nuclear and charges past his assistant coaches toward my partner and I at the ST screaming obscenities. V-HC's assistants grab him back toward their bench, but he is still screaming and it is the Home school's trainer who is attending to V2, no one from Team V's staff is with V2. V-HC will not leave the court and his assistants claim they cannot and will not make him leave the court. My parter (who was the R) decided that enough was enough and it was time to end the game. And that is what we did. We were not going to wait around while V's AD tried to convince V-HC to go to the locker room so that we could administer two free throws for Team A and then play out the last 46 seconds. This game was over. Team V actions should that it did not want to play basketball.
MTD, Sr.