Another suspension looming?

[BryanV21]

What bothers me most about this is not that one official didn't know the rule, but that all three didn't know. And they took a minute to discuss it first.

You'd think one of them might say "wait, I'm not sure a tech is right here."

Then again, maybe one of them did, but he was an umpire and was overruled by the ref.

Either way, they screwed up and could pay for it.

[rsl]

Here is another account, which includes the following quote from the winning coach:

Winona State coach Scott Ballard acknowledged that he brought up the idea of a technical foul to the officials. “I put the bug in their ear," he told the Winona Daily News "You can’t have people storming the floor before the game is over. That’s interfering with the conclusion of the game. There were hundreds of them. It wasn’t like a dozen. It was the entire student section.”

Since when do referees take advice from coaches?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by rsl

Here is another account, which includes the following quote from the winning coach:

Winona State coach Scott Ballard acknowledged that he brought up the idea of a technical foul to the officials. “I put the bug in their ear," he told the Winona Daily News "You can’t have people storming the floor before the game is over. That’s interfering with the conclusion of the game. There were hundreds of them. It wasn’t like a dozen. It was the entire student section.”

Since when do referees take advice from coaches?

Coaches also give themselves too much credit sometimes. How many times does a coach stand up and ask for a travel just as we're about to make the call? You can bet some of them think they gave you the idea.