Advice, please

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Originally posted by umpire29
mnref,
dumping him was the right thing to do. Forfeiting was the wrong thing to do as you took it out on the kids for having a idiotic coach.

Umpire29,

I'm not sure I completely agree with you here. If a coach or coaches get out of control to the point where an official must call the game, then that's the action that must be done. I'm not saying that mnref didn't pull the trigger a little early here (although none of us were at the game), but if he felt that a forfeit was warranted, then it was warranted, at least by the person that mattered. It's not the official's fault that the game is forfeited, no matter whether the kids got to decide the game or not...the coach or coaches decided it for them by completely getting out of control. Case in point, I remember seeing on the basketball board a few weeks ago an official who ended the game because both the assistant and head coaches got ejected. Now, was the official here supposed to not make the final ejection just so the kids could finish the game? Absolutely not...if the ejection and foreiture is warranted, then it should be done. PERIOD. Here is the link to that thread: http://www.officialforum.com/thread/19037

On a side note, mnref, what if anything did your partner say/do after you forfeited the game? Did he back you on it?