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He didn't get violent, and I guess violent was a bad choice of words. When I blew the whistle and pointed to the spot and said white - spot throw in, he shouted, "No, white on baseline" and threw the ball to me for inbounds. I went to talk to him about it and he gave me the stop signal and repeated "white on basline". At this point I gave in and took the ball back to the baseline. Now everyone in the Gymn thinks I'm an idiot and don't know the rules. As a matter of fact, I called a BC violation in the second half when the kid caught a pass from a teammate while airborne after they jumped from the BC. Coach went ballistic and I explained that his player still had BC status when they caught the ball in the air. He looked to the R for reassurance that it was correct most likely because of our little disagreement in the first half. I'm not sure of his repsonse because by that time I had turned and headed back to my Lead position on the baseline. He is a Senior official that does assigning for some rec leagues and I respect him. He runs a quality program and has many varsity officials working which gets the kids better games than the run of the mill rec officials (IMHO). He is older (late 60's, maybe early 70's) and did state finals as well as small college ball when he was in his prime. I think he felt bad about it because after the tournament was over he thanked me and said I was a great partner.
Mregor
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