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Originally Posted by Mark Padgett
In a 8th grade boys rec game yesterday, I had a coach tell me I couldn't T his player because "it was halftime and you can only give a technical when the game is going on."
I had given the T because he jumped up and snapped the rim while warming up.
I said to the coach, "what rule book are you using - the one from the planet Mars?"
Needless to say, the T stood.
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Mark:
You will love this story. Dary "The Preacher" Long and I are supposed to go go Indianapolis to officicate the Hoosier State Games Girls' 13U Division in May 1999; the tournament assignor was and still is a friend of ours from Florida (Don't ask how he was assigning the games from Florida, LOL.). Daryl and a last minute death in the family and so I officiated with a relatively new official.
First game of the day on Saturday morning, we have the home town favorite team. I had seen this team play the night before and its star player had nice big bandaids covering her earrings. And sure enough, my first game of the day on Saturday morning included the home town favorites. I quietly approached the girl and asked her if she was wearing earrings under the bandaides. And of course she answered in the afirmative. I informed her that we (the game officials could not make her not wear her earrings but she could not play if she was wearing them. Of course she complained that the officials let her play the night before, and I told her that we were not last night's officials and then went back the the Scorer's Table.
My partner and I had been at the Table more than 90 seconds when her coach came to me complaining that I had no right to tell his player what she could and not do with her earrings. I politely informed him that the rules prohibited her from wearing jewelery and that we had told her that she did not have to take them out, but if she choose not to remove them she could not play.
Of course he took exception to my explanation and told me that he thought I was in idiot if I thought I could keep her from playing as long as she had her earrings covered with bandaides. I told him that I may well be an idiot, but his opponents were going to start the game shooting two free throws and then get the ball for a throw-in at the division line and that he had lost the coaching box for the entire game. He asked why, and I told him he had just committed a TF for calling me an idiot. The then told me that I could not T him before the game started. I informed him I could and had just did. At that point he said that the next thing I was going to tell him that I could eject him from the game before it even started. I told him that I could to which he replied that I was a bigger idiot than he thought I was, to which I replied, that he could leave the court right now because he was ejected. He did not believe but when I told his assistant the if he did not get him out of here the other team would win the game by forfeit. He left the building at that point.
MTD, Sr.