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Originally Posted by Old School
To me, if these words upset you that much that you would enforce the T in a one-point game with 24 seconds left on the clock, imo, you are not ready to officiate upper level basketball. Maybe this field is not for you. Maybe you just don't have what it takes to succeed at this because I'm here to tell you, it gets much worse than that!
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So far my posts on this thread have only disagreed with your position and are devoid of any personal attacks that you took offense to in posts before I chimed in. I gave you no reason to make the above statement nor the Kool-ade comment later.
FYI:
26 years total experience.
25 years officiating at college level.
3 years as an alternate in the BIG 10 assigned to the University of Michigan before they went to 3 officials.
20 years as a Div 1 evaluator and scout.
10 years officiating AAU, YBOA, and AYBT National Championships.
In ALL the conferences in which I officiated/scouted/evaluated the officials were required to take care of coach's behavior such as mentioned in this sitch and were supported by supervisors.
Coaches behavior in youth games is far worse than any collegiate game I have ever been involved with. If fact at the youth National Championships coaches are amazed at the number of "T's" received by themselves during the tournament. Why? Because most of the officials have collegiate experience and do not hesitate to enforce bench decorum.