[Philz]

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

Philz - if you've been around this forum long enough you would start to doubt yourself even more if Old School agrees with you...

Let me ask you this about the original post: let's say in your game, instead of the coach coming out and doing his thing, sub A6 has to come in for A1 because A1 twisted their ankle on the play. 24 sec. left, A is down by one. A6 gets the ball, and does an obvious travel, because they hadn't been in the game before this. Does this thought cross your mind: "Maybe I should let this travel go, because all the other A players played their hearts out this game, and it would be a shame to let this one player cost them the game"? I would hope you don't call the game this way. You should call the travel and move on. It is exactly the same with the coach's actions. You make the call, and move on. The coach's actions cost the team the game, not your call. Granted, you felt yourself getting emotional, and it is a good thing to try and keep emotions from getting in the way of the calls. But if the coach crosses the line, it's his fault for costing his players.

I've figured out that if I leave a game wondering if I should've given a "T", then I should have given it. I have never left a game wondering if I should not have issued a T when I have.

I disagree with you comparing a Travel with a "T". A "T" I feel is more of a tool to maintain control of the game on mostly the sportsmanship side although I know its use for other things like player number not in the book and so forth but used most the time to punish unsportsman like behavior. Yes he was unsportsman like for sure but I know when he said it he wasnt thinking (I know he knows I dont know that kid and wouldnt have something agaist him) its just what came out of his mouth. I felt the kids should decide the outcome of that game not the coach and me feeling like I needed to "T" him because I'm a ref and no ones going to talk to me and get away with it. That seems to be what I see a lot in these replies. I Ref and umpire with a few guys with the nobodys going to give me any S**T attitudes and I think thats wrong and maybe I get more S**T from people because they know I'll take it but the game not about you and I believe if you walk off the court without the ref being a factor in the game then you did your job. I'm not saying you need to take a lot of crap and if you read one of my replies I mentioned I called more Techs than I can remember this year and even have tossed 3 people out this year but there are certain times when you suck it up and take one for the benifit of the game and I feel I did that with no regrets I dont care how many refs tell me they would have "T" em. And to compare that to a obvious travel is stupid.