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Originally posted by zebraman
Team B coach goes crazy saying we have to wipe off all the points that happen in between the time of the mistake and the out of bounds violation.
Good job with your rule knowledge here Rut. He went crazy despite your presence and game management skills which has been known to happen from time to time. And when he goes home to look up the rule in the book (for his "complaint" to the league director), he'll find that you got it right. End of story.
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Zebraman, let us get something very straight. I have
never said that coaches will not go crazy with good managment of the game or the confidence. I did say the way you handle it will go a very long way in the way you are preceived as an official. And if the confidence you hold is lacking, he might continue to rant and rave about what they thought I blew. And because I was firm about it, the conversation ended and we moved on (help from my partner of course). Now this idiot coach did not know the rule. And if you think that he is actually going to go home and look up a rule that it is using anecdotal evidence to debate with me, then you are not much smarter than he is. What coach have you really ever know to be that proficiant in the rules to debate with most officials on what rule really are? See Z, I am not worried about him, I am worried about the assignors, evaluators or anyone else that has real influence in determining what officials do and how far they advance. This coach is still going to think I am stupid and do not know the rule, remember he thought I should take off points. No rule that I know takes off points for a correctable error unless we awarded points that was not valid. This was not the case here. BTW, this was not a tournament that some "director" could or would have had much say in anything any official did. This was an independant tournament that was just held this weekend. So even if this coach went back and complained, who the hell would he have complained to?
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I thought you didn't do AAU?
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You seem to love to try to pay close attention to other things I say, you need to pay much closer attention now. I have never said that I do not do AAU. If that was the case, I would not have talked about an AAU Regional Championship Tournament I did in Rockford, IL about 2 months ago. If I did not do AAU, I would not have done that tournament now would I? Secondly, I do not schedule AAU Tournaments or seek them out for the very reason I am telling you this story in the first place. You do not have qualified coaches or even people that coach basketball outside of these tournaments most of the time, so some Dad (HAPPY FATHERS DAY BTW!!!
) is trying to tell me what rules are and they have never taken one test or even know what the National Federation is. You can be a 1000% rules guy and be told how stupid or incompetent an official you are coming from individuals that base rules by what Bill Walton says during the Final Four or NBA Finals. Most of the time I would much rather pass and have a V8 in the process. Now having said that I did this particular game or tournament that I did was for an officiating friend of mine that asked me to help him out. I only did this because I knew who my partner was and I was doing it for this friend. Otherwise I most likely would have passed.
Peace
[Edited by JRutledge on Jun 16th, 2002 at 03:19 PM]