[fiasco]

Need help on whether I was a little too quick with the whack on Saturday.

Jr High boys, it's the fourth quarter of a hotly contested game. Home coach has been vocal but not out of line the whole game until the fourth quarter. He stomps his feet and makes some outlandish gestures at a call from my partner. He is given a warning.

A few minutes later, I call a foul on H1. As I'm walking away from the table to go administer the free throws, I hear the loud crash of a clipboard hitting the Home bench. I know it has to be the Home coach because there's no one around him with a clipboard and he was holding it while I reported the foul.

So, I never saw him throw the clipboard, and he would later claim he was frustrated with his players and was talking to them when he threw it, the action was not directed towards the officials. I told him "throwing a clipboard is throwing a clipboard, coach. It's unsportsmanlike."

Varsity coach watching the game asked me after the game what the T was for and he seemed purturbed by my call as well. What do you think?

Oh, and this Jr High coach came up to me after the game (same game where he had told the scorekeeper that this was the best officiated game he had seen all year) and told me "You're the ****tiest ref I have ever seen in all my years of coaching."