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Originally Posted by elker13
I'm working a Girls Varsity game at a small High School. I arrive with my partner and we are informed by both coaches that a player on the visiting team forgot her uniform. The home coach offers a JV uniform to the visiting team(Why they didn't pack a spare I don't know).
We inform the visiting coach that the game will start with a technical foul, he loses his coaches box, and if he gets another technical foul he is gone. He says he completely understands.
Game is going smoothly up until the last 3 minutes of the 4th quarter...Visiting coach calls a timeout, I ask if he wants a Full or 30. From the lipping reading I see 30. I report to the table and take my position and notice the visiting team is seated on the bench for the timeout.
I walk over and say Coach it's a 30, off the bench please. He becomes irate and screams I called a Full Timeout. I calmly say ok and tell him that this is his warning, anything else will be a technical. I then return to the table and report the Full time out. The 1st horn sounds and I go to the bench to inform them. I ask the coach to give a physical signal in the future for timeouts to avoid confusion.
He stands up and yells are you going to keep interupting my timeout, I only have one minute. He proceeds to tell me that I'm an awful official and I don't know what I'm doing. I took a step back ready to whack him and my partner stepped in between us.
Do you whack him or do you let him go?
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I only mention to a coach the consequence of future infractions if I believe that he has no clue whatsoever. Why mention this?
Warning for what? I believe the procedure is to rule a full timeout if the HC is not clear what type s/he wants. So, did you warn him that unless he makes it clear, future TOs are automatically a full timeout? Or did you warn him that if he tries to pull a fast one again, you're going to charge him with a T? What if next time he says he wants a 45-second timeout? By your definition, this is "something else". Are you really going to T him here, and then have to eject him?
When did you request that he give a visual signal? Was it before the 60 seconds was up? Personally, I think that talking to him other than telling him that the warning horn has sounded is infringing on his right to do whatever he wants with those seconds. If he non-complies, there is a penalty that he must deal with: the RPP is used.
If you didn't wait until his team broke the huddle, then I think that you did interrupt his timeout.