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Originally Posted by Altor
Sometimes I swear that extra punishments like this actually deter officials from making calls that need to be made in their game for exactly the reason the clinician said. "I could have called a second technical on him, but his behavior wasn't bad enough that it deserved sitting two additional games," is one I've heard in my state.
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The idea that a superstar or a coach can get tossed in the NBA Playoffs with no issue yet some officials don't have the stones to whack a high school coach for acting like a jackass is baffling to me.
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Originally Posted by Adam
Some worry about it, some don't. My theory is, the coach is far more aware of additional penalties than I am, so he should be the one to alter HIS behavior to avoid them.
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Yep, rather than we being the ones to alter our tolerance level to do him a favor. And in SC especially, the logic makes no sense–coaches' have zero input in our rating system, which determines assignments. No reason to try and be friends with them.
As a clinician at a camp I went to put it: the coach is not our friend. You can play golf with him one day, and the next day he will throw your ass under the bus.