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Originally Posted by crosscountry55
"Does it fit" is supposed to be subjective. That's the point. Does it fit the good of the game? I had a [expletive deleted] coach once who was awful. Earned a T early in the second quarter after a formal warning didn't phase him. But he kept at it, especially in the 2nd half. He honed in on me because I gave him the first one, almost baiting me to eject him. But the thing was, his team was losing by 30 and ultimately lost by 50. Ejecting the coach wouldn't have accomplished much of anything from a penalty standpoint other than interrupting the game and maybe making me feel a little better. So yes, I was thinking about the criteria the whole time. It didn't fit. Wouldn't have been good for the game. I could tell my partner was thinking the same thing, because he didn't run the coach, either. We talked about it after the game and agreed we'd done the right thing.
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Either your criteria is awful or you don't understand them because both of you screwed up royally in this situation.
You let a coach "hone in" on you, keep after you, and "almost baiting" you and you didn't penalize his behavior because "he was losing by 30 and lost by 50" and you don't think that tossing him would have accomplished anything. Ouch, your thinking here is so poor!
What about setting an example for the young student-athletes in that game who were observing this unsporting behavior? What about being a positive part of supporting sporting behavior in contests? What about letting the coach know that the score doesn't matter, and he can't treat officials that way? What about the crew that works the next game involving this team and coach? Did you support them? Did your non-action help them?
You and your partner dropped the ball here and failed to support just about everything that we stand for as officials. I wish that Jurassic were still around to give you a tongue-lashing on this one.
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Originally Posted by crosscountry55
So I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree. Besides, I don't see how your criteria are all that different from mine. To each his own.
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You are darn right that we disagree. You seem to use your wishy-washy criteria, which really aren't standards at all and that is the source of the problem, to justify not penalizing unsporting behavior as in the case of this coach. That's just wrong.
My criteria are designed to get to the crux of the matter, not muck it up with flashy words that only serve to allow anyone to justify anything.
Would I have tossed your 30pt-losing coach who was misbehaving? Absolutely. Even you would have to admit that his behavior warranted a second T.
I think of other officials who work in the area, the kids watching someone who is supposed to serve as a role model for them, the kids on the opposing team, the spectators watching this display, and what scholastic athletics is supposed to teach people in our society. You and your partner failed in all of those aspects, yet your criteria permits you to conclude "we'd done the right thing" "for the good of the game." That's how are standards are different.