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there are NO mitigating factors when it comes to a coach going after one of the assignor's officials post-game, like Fox did.
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Some people would like to blame someone other than the coach for his idiotic behavior.
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I think this has to be my last post in this thread. No one is blaming anyone other than the coach for the coach's behavior. No one is claiming there are mitigating factors to be considered in deciding the coach's punishment. We are all in agreement on that.
Having agreed to that, I think it's also safe to say that the situation
might have been avoided if the assignor hadn't used that same official for that team 3 times in 9 days. Maybe not. But common sense tells me that the official shouldn't have had all 3 of those assignments, unless there was some unavoidable factor involved.
Here's an example of what I mean, from my own parenting experience. If you know that a 3-year old child has done something wrong, you don't ask them if they did it. Because the kid is going to lie 99% of the time. If you don't want the kid to lie, then don't ask the question. If you do ask the question and the kid lies, it's still the kid's fault for lying. It's his responsibility. But you could easily have avoided his misbehavior by not asking the question.
The coach's blow-up is 100% the coach's responsibility. But the situation might have been avoided by not putting that particular ref on that game.
If you still think I'm blaming the ref or the assignor for the coach's behavior, then more power to you. This thread's close to lock-down, anyway.
