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It's the type of rule with good intentions, but is poorly thought out, IMO.
When I lived in Seattle and worked baseball, the state had a rule -- if the head coach got ejected, the team would forfeit. Nobody would eject a coach and the coaches knew it and the behavior was worse than after they got rid of the rule. Sure, there were ejections, but many coaches knew that they *would* get run now that it wasn't the nuclear option it once was.
20 minutes on the bench for a technical foul? I could see officials who would call a T for a spike now walking up and saying "don't do that again." To me, it's better to allow the rules of the game to handle this. Whack, shoot, let's go. He won't do it twice or he'll get ejected.
To me, rec league technicals should be like handing out candy on Halloween. Frequent and routine.
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