Coaches, please read the rule book

[Adam]

Originally posted by ibumgardner
My question for you is why in the world did you blow the ball dead during for the first play that you described? Your post is about rules. Under what rule are you allowed to blow the ball dead to explain a rule to a coach. IMO, things like this are what get us in trouble as referees.
The traveling during an inbounds is a common misinterpretation of the rules that is in part the fault of officials and announcers in basketball games. I have seen officials on tv give a traveling signal when the thrower-in violated the 3' restriction. The announcers (regardless) of what signal the official gives, virtually always says that it is traveling out of bounds. The coaches assume that the announcers know the rules and use that during their games (pee-wee, AAU, or HS).

This was 5th grade boys AAU game, and the coach had essentially earned himself a T by standing up to complain about my no-call and arguing about a rule with me. Frankly, I did him (and the game) a favor by doing it that way. The game went much better from that point.
Whether he believed me or not isn't really relevant either. I essentially told him two things. First, that I'm aware of what's happening and don't need his help. Second, that his opinion of the rules isn't going to have any effect on me.