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Originally Posted by Old School
I already answered that Daryl. If you have read all the way to this point, you should certainly understand why I choose not to enforce the T. What authority can I attribute it too? My authority as the official for the game. It is my judgment, I reason it to be an emotional knee-jerk reaction from the coach and not meant as an attack on my integrity.
When the book talks about judgment and balance of fair play, and it also talks about its important to understand the intent and purpose of a rule so that it may be intelligently applied and/or called by the official. Most of the people out here say it's intelligent to immedately give the coach a T. I think I am the only one here that thinks it's intelligent to walk away so that I can not hear the coaches comment. Preventive officiating. To me, the integrity of a good game that I just got to work means more to me than the coaches kneejerk comments about his hurt player.
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I respect the part when you say you do not think it is an attack on your integrity. I am having a hard time comprehending why not. So far your defense for no "T" is 1.) he score of the game is close, 2.) you did not wish to penalize the kids for the actions of their coach, 3.) emotional outbursts by coaches are a part of the game and need to be ignored if we wish to advance to higher levels, or 4.) you did not think coach's comments attacked your integrity. At least those kept your reasoning within the realm of basketball. You lost your argument (not respect) with me when you first did not think how your lack of applying Rule 10-4-1a affects the other team and secondly you started to bring in outrageous analogies.
At question is the behavior of a individual involved in the game and we have pointed out rules that prohibit the very behavior in question. That most of the posters think it is intelligent to immediately give the "T" is not an anomoly of a local officials association. It represents the collective intelligence of many who base their decision on the authority not themselves. When the same decision is reached by those who are neither bound by geography nor level of officiating, that is the ultimate in integrity. And the integrity of the game is maintained by not depriving the other team from the chance to score points to win the game as a consequence of the other coach's actions.
I would be interested to know why you think the integrity of the game is maintained depriving the other team of merited free throws.