Profanity by coach

[Snake~eyes]

Originally posted by Daryl H. Long
I took my annual Memorial Day Weekend trip to Hartford, Ct to officiate the CT Starter Girls Summer Classic. Last game of the tournament played between two teams who are both heading for the 16U AAU Nationals. During a timeout early in the first half the coach for team A requests and is granted a full timeout. Mechanics puts my position at the block on same end as team A's bench. The coach is yelling extremely loud at his players of which every word is clearly heard. In the course of his tirade against his players he drops a number of f-bombs (as a noun, verb, adjective, adverb and even just as an interjection). to make matter worse, if that is possible, he also included a few BS's and a smattering of several others of "George Carlin's 7 that cannot be said on TV".

The NF Rule Book POE says the huddle is not a sanctuary for profanity. Ronnie Girourd, on the NF rules committee, wrote in the NF Newsletter that profanity should not be tolerated and to assess the immediate T.

If you were in my shoes what would you have done?

1. Ignore?
2. Warn?
3. T?
4. Ejection?

If you pick 2,3,or 4 what do you say to coach to inform him of your dcecision?

Well you are playingg under NCAA rules I assume... I would have warned or Ted.

Originally posted by Nevadaref

Did you inform him that the rules of basketball don't work that way?

I'm seriously waiting for the officials to become so disgusted with these TDs that they just walk out of the gym and let them try to play the games without officials. Perhaps the tournament director will have to go find a whistle!

Well in a tournament we were enforcing bench decorum and we wouldnt let an assistant coach stand for the head coach. The TD tells us (a) there is no bench rule (b)he's never heard of it (c) wants to see it in the rulebook. We gladly gave him the rulebook told him it was in rule 10. Anyways I don't think he ever found it and quit looking after a couple minutes.