I Didin't want to hijack the survey thread...but an observation

[Old School]

Originally Posted by Ignats75

I am a little surprised at how few T's people have issued. In reading this forum all season, the veterans were pretty vocal about having the cajones to issue T's when necessary. I consider myself pretty patient, yet I have issued eight this year. To see the 1's and 0's, leads me to believe that we may be too tolerant of some behavior which leads to the deterioration of standards that some have lamented about this year.

Where is the survey? To the senior people on this forum, most, not all are full of it. They talk a good game, they talk all big and bold behind the keyboard, but in actual practice, my bet is their bark is bigger than their bite. There are a lot of other factors that contribute to issuing a technicial. Most of the people here will have you believe that you should call it everytime it occurs. But here are a couple of factors that you should consider.

1.) How well the official knows the coaches. The relationship between the coaches and officials does come into play. Real ex: working with a senior women's official doing a game, coach was a dick thru-out the whole game, team was up by 35 points so I ignored the coach. Senior official was all broke-up inside after the game. Didn't understand why the coach was questioning him and every call so much. Said he should have T'd him but didn't.

2.) Where the official is within their career. For example: if you are trying to build a solid schedule, you might not want to T the home coach so quickly as others here would have you believe. Let's say you're working at Texas Tech, in fact your first game there. I guarantee, you T up Bobby Knight, you might not get anymore games there. There are a lot of other gyms at all levels that are like this for certain officials. Just something to consider.

You go trying to be top-dog and T up the wrong coach (and I'm speaking of calling T's on coaches, not players). I guarantee your games will get cut, at the very least, at that particular gym. Now if you are well established, you might not have to worry about it as much. But even then, it is a concern as other factors "do" come into play.