a rant on game management priorities

[Old School]

Originally Posted by Mountaineer

My warning for shirts not tucked in comes in pregame. I will give a courtesy warning during a FT - "Check your shirts guys". If someone gives me any kind of an attitude or refuses to tuck them in neatly, I ask them to follow me and send them out. If you take care of it early - 1st qtr - you won't have to worry about it any more during the game. I am persistent about this issue. (If there's a circumstance that's odd, I take that into consideration - i.e. older uni's that have short tails, etc.)

Ditto that, and very well said.

I will, however, give a player a technical foul for shirt tail not tucked, after several warnings of course. Real example: Girls 10th grade game. I'm administrating the FT and I tell player to tuck in. Won't do it. I repeat, same response. I send player to bench. Coach asks why and I said, she won't tuck in her shirt. Okay, next dead whistle, coach sends her back. I warn her again. Still won't do it. BLAM! Technical foul, unsportsmanlike conduct. I'm not going to keep sending them to the bench. I'm putting the owness on the players too. They too are responsible for there actions.

Just like, I'm not going to address an assistance coach thru the head coach. If the assistance is out of line in IMO, I will deal directly with him/her. Real example: Late in the game this weekend, my partner called a foul on one of the key players on the team. Assistance coach stomps his feet to the floor which I clearly heard and jumps up off the bench in disgust of the foul call. I called a Direct Technical to the assistance coach, indirect to the head coach, coach must now remain seated. I'm not going to the head coach and giving him a warning about inappropriate behavior from an assistance, or that the AC must remain seated at all times or should not talk to me. Not going there.