Ever happen?

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by mopar60

I was looking over POE for a camp I am going to attend next week. In reference to Sporting Behavior, I was wondering if any of you have ever seen a coach get a T for treatment of his own players and for what?

I have heard a coach swear at one of his own JV aged girls before that is why it came to mind. (Actually he got tossed not a longtime after that for mouthing off to official).

Where would you as an official draw the line in this regard?

It is, according to the rules, not acceptable to use inappropriate language to any player. That said, in reality the older the players, the more leeway you give the coach regarding their own players. I would consider the T as carefully as I would giving a T to a team for fan behavior - it should be used very sparingly, and probably only after other things have been tried to correct it.

A long time ago, I was working a 5th and 6th grade girls game in a small-town grade school gym, with probably 10 parents in the stands. The home coach was trying to get one of his kids to trap in the corner, so his player ran over to the offensive player and ended up knocking her off the court. It was not pre-meditated in any way, just a clumsy, 5th grade girl play. I called the foul, and the coach asked for a TO. He then proceded to really lay into this kid, yelling things like, "How could you do that?!? I taught you better than that!!", and many other things at a high volume. It was a very uncomfortable TO, and I wondered if I should T the coach. But, I didn't, because after all, he was just yelling at his own player, right? Since then, I figured out if that exact scenario happens again to me again, it's an easy T at that level, especially with the Fed. emphasis on sportsmanship. At the HS varsity level and above, I would probably ignore it unless there are curse words being thown about at a high enough volume that most people in the gym can hear it. Then I might go over after the TO and remind the coach about his/her responsibilty as a teacher, and since he/she is a representive of the school they should remember the emphisis on sportsmanship.