The effect of a technical foul on a coach

[SC Official]

Originally Posted by FormerUmp

I would hope that the school would be required to provide a pretty strong, legitimate reason to justify a scratch.

Otherwise it seems like it would be pretty easy to abuse against officials who take care of business as JRut and others have said.

Nope. But schools only get to scratch a certain number of officials statewide (not sure what the number is). All varsity games (save certain holiday tournaments) are assigned on the same Arbiter account, so it's pretty simple to just go in and add/remove scratches.

I think it's stupid, but SC is not the only state that gives schools this type of control over who doesn't get to work their games. Heck, I think in Texas both coaches have to approve the crews assigned to each game (or something like that).

Originally Posted by rockyroad

Really???

How about the coach that yells "You are a f@cking cheater!!" No flagrant T for that?

Or how about "You mother-f@cker"...no flagrant T for that?

I'd rather give two Ts than one to eject/DQ someone. It makes it more obvious that the individual hung himself. Chances are, if the coach is calling you that, he's going to get his second T shortly after his first because he's not going to calm down. And if my partners decide not to do their job, I will happily issue T #2 even if I also gave #1. I'm not afraid of doing this like some officials are.