Was wondering if anyone has ever given a technical foul to a coach for staring?

I had a game last week when a coach took a timeout and rather than address his players, he chose to stare me down for almost the entire 30-second timeout. I was very tempted to hit him with a technical for unsportsmanlike conduct, but I chose not to because my partner had already given him one earlier in the game.

He had no assistant coaches and if he was ejected the kids (who were no problem the whole game) wouldn't have had anyone to coach them. Any thoughts?

maybe coach was just checking you out.

I had a coach give me the stinky-eye last Friday. I'm thinking through some possible responses, because i can't seem to justify a T here.

As long as he isn't making a scene and inciting the crowd, I don't think I'd give a T for this. I would be a little more on the lookout for something that I could T however.

We had a very long discussion of this a while ago. I'll let somebody else do the Google search. (Insert plea to Brad for a search function here. . .)

I firmly believe that this is not a T. You can't T somebody for doing literally nothing.

And BTW, Adam, it's the "skunk eye". ;)

I don't think staring is "doing nothing." When it's obvious, and everyone in the gym sees it, it seems to me that this can be defined as unsportsmanlike conduct.

I think if I was in this siutation again, I'd T him!

Nope...never T'd a coach for staring. Did have an ***'t coach staring at me once during a full time-out...he turned around pretty quick when I blew him a kiss...

Blew him a kiss, huh? So then I guess your reaction to coaches acting unprofessionally is to act unprofessionally yourself?

I've certainly seen NBA refs T up a stare.

Yasureyoubetcha...got me all figgered out already, don't ya...you should see me when I take my jacket off and throw it out onto the court, or start kicking over chairs...

5'2" of dynamite!

<font size = -2>And a 1/2" wick.</font>

"Stop eyeballing me Rasheed!" :D

17 posts and he's already passing judgment....

Well, then you'd be incorrect. If a coach is standing with his eyes open and not moving, he's not doing anything (except breathing, I guess). And he's certainly not doing anything to me.

I guess you have to have more than 1,600 posts on this forum to have a valid opinion about anything.