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.

No, but you have to have more than... (let's see how many am I up to now?)...4,000 to express sarcasm or patronizing irony. Get it? (said very patronizingly!)

"WHACK! Get out!" - Ronnie Garretson

:D

No, but you don't have to be sanctimonius, either.

No, you just come off as very arrogant when you post something like that when you've been here 4 months and the guy you're popping off to has been here over 4 years.

Loosen up. If you can't have a little fun on the floor, you're probably not enjoying yourself.

Do I have an eye booger coach?

I guess that's the problem. I'm out working games, going to the gym to stay and shape and attending 3-4 camps a year while you guys are hammering away at the computer. I guess that's why I'm doing some college ball now after only four years as an official.

I think that if a coach wants to waste an entire TO staring at me then so be it. He only gets 5 and if he was worht a lick he would provide some guidance to his team. I don't know this specific coach I am talking here in generalities.

I would do the following. And correct me if I'm wrong; I only have 27 posts after all! (wink, wink)

First of all, I'd make sure to let the coach see that his staring is not influencing me and most of all, I would NOT avoid his glance for all the duration of the timeout because he would know that he's making me feel uncomfortable. I'd just try to stay natural and after a while, I'd go see him and ask : "Can I help you with something, coach?"

After that, it would be easy to improvise depending on his answer.

What do you think?

I like that approach. Maybe that's what I'll try next time.

If you're such a great official, why did you come here asking about what to do with the stare?

I would stare back and hope he opens his mouth. But I would not call something because of stare. It might not take a lot after that to get a T, but not just for staring.

Peace

Wow! College ball! You must be a great official after only 4 years! I guess that's why you're here, still trying to decide when to call a T.

NEWSFLASH: Nobody here is impressed. Nobody here gives a $hit.

Hate to have to tell ya this, SuperRef, but there's quite a few regular posters here that work a lot of top level games, stay in shape, go to camps, do some college ball- and still have the time to post here and share their knowledge with everybody. RockyRoad is certainly high on that list. Somehow, I think that you blowing your own horn without really having ever added anything very useful to this site doesn't impress any of them that much- unfortunately. Jmo.

[Edited by Jurassic Referee on Jan 12th, 2005 at 09:28 PM]

Followed by, "Get away from me Steve," to Steve Smith, "He was trying to intimidate me Steve and he's NOT."

I would be tempted to "review the current situation" with my partner. Meet him at mid-court, discuss the foul count, the location of the throw-in, where to eat on the way home. In other words, just plain ignore the coach. If he wants to spend the time out giving my backside the hairy eyeball, so be it. Hopefully he'll give it a miss and go coach his team.

This is a great defense against the charge of arrogance. :rolleyes: