Intentional technical

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally posted by ChuckElias

Cheryl, you may be thinking of the NCAA interpretation that says a coach can't receive more than 2 direct technical fouls. (Thank you, Bobby Knight.) In HS, however, there is no such restriction on players or on coaches.

My personal record is 5 T's on a head coach in one game. Varsity high school. My partner got the same coach for 6 T's in the same game. Yup, 11 T's for that coach. The game was back in the very early '70s iirc- before the FED put in the 2 T-disqualification rule. At that time, there was no limit in the rules as to the number of T's allowed before bye-bye time. This particular coach wasn't actually that bad a guy; he just had a team that year that he absolutely hated. This was during the "flower child/hippie" era and his players weren't real good at listening to him. Mix that in with most of his kids showing up stoned for games and you get a coach that wasn't really enjoying himself. This particular night, he was even more pissed off at his kids than usual; I heard him say sumthin' in a huddle early in the game to his players like "I've had enough of you a$$holes. I'm gonna get thrown out so so I don't have to look at you anymore". I reported that to my partner, and we both come to the same conclusion quickly-- he wasn't goung anywhere. Iow, we suffer, you suffer. We did throw about 4 of his worse-behaving kids out though- just to give him a little more company on the bench. The coach finally did calm down later in the game when he figured out that (a) he wasn't going anywhere, and (b) all the T's he was getting were just making the game longer.

After the game, he came into our dressing room, just looked at us, shook his head and said something like "I shoulda known that I wouldn't get any mercy from you two". Broke us both up.

True story.