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I'm going to approach this question with a different slant. I remember ejecting a coach in a freshman girls game in my 2nd or 3rd year of officiating that may have "contributed" to the team losing. I whacked the coach after a couple of "stop sign" warnings, 1 from my partner and 1 from me, that the coach ignored. Unfortunately, I was also the one that whacked him the second time about 20 seconds later. He deserved to be tossed, but the bad thing is his assistant coach was an absolute idiot as far as coaching and his team wound up losing by 2 or 3 points after leading by almost 20 points. Now I know that the coach ignored the "stop signs", and we always try to have the other official give the 2nd. T, but I would like to have handled things in a better way. The coach's behavior cost his team the game, but I wonder if I contributed to the loss with the quick second T. I didn't lose any sleep about it, but sometimes we look back and think about what happened.