What would you do or say?

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by refnjoe

Coach, "Thats BULLS...!" Not loud enough for the crowd to hear (crowd on opposite side of court), but certainly loud enough for the players on the court to hear it...

Automatic technical foul in high school games. If you don't you're giving him, as well as the oppposing coach, permission to crap all over the officials. It doesn't matter whether it's addressed to you or your partner either. You're a team out there.

Wait a minute......let me amend that a l'il bit. It should be an automatic "T" in high school games. Some officials would never dream of calling it though.

[refnjoe]

Thanks for the responses. That's exactly what I did. It was actually my first T on a coach.

My main reason for posting is exactly what you said. I think he was genuinely surprised that I made the call. As soon as I blew the whistle and signaled the T, I heard someone in the crowd go "It's about time!"

No way this comment was referencing anything that night, as there wasn't borderline behavior from him before that. That told me he may have a habit of unsportsmanlike behavior.

At halftime, partner and I came out a couple minutes early as our room was hotter than ... and adjacent to locker rooms- we could hear everything.

We were standing near entrance to court when team comes out, and coach asks if he can talk to us. We said he could ask us questions. He said he has been confused; this is 3rd travel call this season on same kid; that he has seen tape of other 2 and really doesnt think kid is traveling. We just said it looked like a travel to us and we can't speak to the other calls.

Coach walks away and tells me I need to get thicker skin....
HAHAHA! Again, confirming that he has acted this way before and others have let it go...