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Originally Posted by Tim C
Having been taken to the woodshed for perhaps the final time I do have another question concerning the OP and the video.
As I am a baseball guy first so why would any official allow the intrusion of assistant coaches at all?
My point would be: As an official that worked upper Division High School Basketball in Oregon/Washington and many college games (that's for you Smitty) in my history why wouldn't one of the officials simply take the head coach (I assume that is the guy in the suit) aside and say: "hey, I am going over to talk to the scorer's table, when I return I want all your assistant coaches to be sitting "quietly" on the bench NOT to stand again. If they are not controlled I will take that as a sigh that you cannot control your bench I will call as many technical fouls as necessary until I DO YOUR JOB!"
As I am a member of the staff of High School today magazine we consider any sporting event to be an extension of the classroom. I have never seen seven teaching assistants in a classroom.
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I don't think any of us are thrilled with how the officials handled the bench and the way those guys are acting. It's part of the reason for the posting of the video.
I am one of those people who work a lot of 2-man and 3-man. When scheduled 2-man, I keep up just fine physically. No problem getting up and down in any game we work.
(The other side is that we have to make decisions based on inferior looks more in 2-man. Some fouls probably would be no-called in 3-man and we'd probably get some we no call with an extra official on the court. It's a compromise.)
These days, it's not the conditioning required to get up and down the floor. It's the fact that physical off-ball play is so much more prevalent now than it was even 26 years ago, when I was getting my start.
To me, there's no reason to work 2 when one more official can make the environment so much safer for the participants at such a small cost.
You may go almost all season without having something happen just off an official's periphery -- and then in that one game, you miss a bad screen or an elbow because of the limitations of a 2-person crew. If that's worth the $660 (at $30 per game based on what I calculated above for 11 homes games, boys and girls) or isn't enough of an incentive to find that $660, then I don't want to hear pissing and moaning when something is missed. We do the best we can.