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Originally Posted by Old School
If you call a minimum or none at all and you are a good official. I think you would be the type of official that coaches/assigners prefer. If you are the type of official that calls a lot of conduct T's, I don't think that is good, new or old. That shows your lack of ability to manage and control the situation and maybe on another level, you lack of respect from players and coaches alike. Not good. My approach going into any games I work is not to call any technicals. If I get thru the game and not have to blast any, goal accomplished. Warnings, stop signs, maybe you need to just let the coach give you a few words and you say you will watch it closer is all that it takes.
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I'll try this again, but more constructively.
One should never go into a game with a goal for Ts, any more than you have a goal for travels or held balls.
It’s one thing to have a goal to talk more with coaches or to be better at communicating with them. That type of goal may very well decrease your technical fouls over time; but to suggest that the number of "conduct Ts" called, by itself, is somehow a good benchmark for your ability as an official is just bad advice.