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Ranchman,
Forget about the english comments!

You said you are an official of three years your partner is of how many years?

I do not work in Texas durring the school season however I work a couple of AAU tourneys down there in the summer, and I do know that they take their BB seriously. Sometimes too seriously, however, as others have said those things that happened on the floor were under your control, and you AND your partner needed to deal with them in some manner, have a quick conversation with the coach or as most have said Whack her once Whack her twice! She would not have lasted in my game as you describe it.

Off the floor;
NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, engage in any conversation with a coach or fan after a game, especially if you have had trouble with them in the past.

NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, let a coach touch you or try to direct you somewhere.

NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, open your mouth in anger at a coach or fan.

You need to report the assault, however since you opened your mouth there are problems, that might mitigate the assault.

You need to file a complaint with your assigning group, the state regulatory group and the conference the school is in, also encourage those present to either join your complaint or file their own.

for the most part you need to file this one away as a learning experience, review what happened on the floor and how you could have dealt with what happened more decisively and nipped the problems early on.

It seems from your post that there was about a 15 - 20 point swing in the score from second to fourth quarter. Maybe if coach spent more time woring about what the opponents were doing to beat her instaed of the calls being made she would have been in the game.


If you can contact the opposing school and get a game tape, make a copy and keep it use it as a training tool for your self - give the other one to someone in authority that can put it to good use.

Good luck and stay in touch there are a lot of people here who can help you.