[BillyMac]

From Old School: "You should feel bad you didn't give out a well deserved T."

From BillyMac: "We missed our chance. I learned from that expereience. It will never happen again."

Old School: Just what part of "We missed our chance. I learned from that expereience. It will never happen again.", did you not understand. I'm a brother official. Why would you want to pile it on?

From Old School: "I have to believe the coach is right and you guys where doing a bad job."

Old School: The only information you have about this game is that the coach's conduct deserved a technical foul, that we chose, incorrectly, not to give a technical foul, and from that you deduce that we were doing a bad job. It sounds like you're putting more weight on the coaches unsporting conduct then on our poor decision to not give a technical foul. There are no perfect officials. I'm sure that, like all officials, we missed some calls in that game, but the only real bad call that we made in that game was to wait to give a technical foul.

From Tri-City (Washington State) Officials Association (As posted on this Forum): "The technical foul is given ... if giving a technical will help give structure back to the game and if it will have a calming effect on things."

From BillyMac: "The coach never said "boo" the entire second half."

Old School: Even though I still believe that we were wrong to not give a technical foul in this situation, we didn't give a technical foul and the game improved and the coach calmed down, which according to some sources, is a good reason to give a technical foul. Bottom line: We incorrectly chose not to give a technical foul, but it still worked out in the end, the game improved and the coach calmed down.