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Originally Posted by beachbum
Coaches,
When you get a "T" in a basketball game, for something you deserve( I'm not talking about an illegal substitution). How do you feel about it the next day? Especially if you continued to voice your disapproval of the call during the game.
Do you still think the official is a jerk and doesn't know what they are doing, or do you respect him or her alittle more for standing up and enforcing the rules of the sport?, or lastly do you just move on and forget it?
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I began coaching basketball at the jr. high level when I was still in high school. I continued coaching (still help out at times when asked) for decades. I got to know many a coach. Some of us got very few technical fouls, others would routinely get two in a game back in the days when an ejection only meant an ejection for the remainder of that game.
Coaches don't necessarily think officials are jerks simply because the official gave them a technical foul. In most cases, technical fouls come after a lengthy "courtship" between official(s) and coach. My technicals virtually all came when arguing about a rule as opposed to a judgment call. The original reason I got my officiating license was solely for the purpose of ensuring that, as a coach, I knew the rules. If I was going to argue a call I wanted to make sure that I was right. Like many of the coaches who have already responded, if I received a technical from an official because he did not know the rules and I pointed it out, I have to admit, I usually thought very little of the official the next day. As a coach, I expected the officials to know the rules. When they didn't -- AND T'd me up -- I had little to no respect for them.
I never got a technical foul for just constant arguing and bickering. Many of my friends have. Most of them know that a line needs to be drawn. As long as the official has been willing to talk to them during the game, generally, the coaches are fine the next day -- or even after the game. If the official either never gave an indication that the technical was coming or refused to even answer questions during the game, the coaches typically thought the official was "a jerk" (to use your term).
Many coaches are remorseful after the fact (after the game, two hours later, the next day, or at some point). Most of those coaches would tell you that they got into the game and got out of line. In those cases, the coaches typically do not view the officials in a negative way -- they understand that the officials have a job to do.
Some coaches show up to every game with a chip on their shoulder ASSUMING that us officials are going to "stick it to their team" somehow during the game. In most cases, these coaches tend to be the ones who get T'd up the most. If you come into a game with a biased view (coaches, parents, fans and players all have a bias since they want their team to win) AND come in with that attitude. Any close game becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Coach has a bias, but is searching for the missed calls that will stick it to his team. Several close calls go against his team (remember, he is looking for them). Coach now gets on the officials -- no one call, just overall about everything. T is the result.
These guys and gals usually do not end up in coaching very long -- OR change their views. These folks wake up the next day thinking the official who called the T is "a jerk", his partners were "jerks", the guys working the game before were "jerks", etc.