How about an account amputation, then a cute band-aid?

From an old western movie somewhere
 

You got IT the old fashioned way, and we are gonna cure IT the old fashioned way......

Amputation?:eek:

Banishment from the kingdom?

as I recall
 

as I recall from the movie, amputation may have been kinder...it was a searing hot metal rod, inserted into a very uncomfortable place....usually found only on the male of the species....

I'd say this is "T" worthy at pretty much every level and especially in a 9-10 year old game.

Just curious, why is OS the only person standing on his side of the fence in most senerios and yet he says everyone else needs to "get out more"? I'd also like to know where he goes when he get's out so I don't bump into him.

Depending on where the coach is within his career. If he's had several losing seasons and gets a T that could possibly cost his team a trip to the playoff's. Could be devastating. Once you get out of the lower level ball mindset, these type of things could become an issue. If, as an official, you have one way you like to approach these types of situation, it becomes the same medicine, the same cure, the same response for whatever level you work.

Welcome to officiating. You hate to have a game come down to an officials call, but sometimes it happens.

Good point, you might catch it.

Well, that should be a technical foul.....

Makes as much sense as some of the other stuff being posted in this thread.....:D

My point is that if this coach is teetering on getting fired, and my T would send his employer over the edge to fire him; not calling that T would only postpone the inevitable anyway. That's a big "if," though. Besides, his career progression isn't my concern. It's the game, and it's bigger than any coach or official.
I don't call this T to make him like me or respect me or because of how it makes me feel. I call the T because coaches and players need to know they can't get away with calling a ref a cheater. How it makes me feel is irrelevant.

Oh, by the way, your strawman is burning.

No disrespect intended, but my analogy is just that, an analogy, not a statement of fact. People draw analogies all the time, some maybe closer than others, but if you can't distinguish the difference, then maybe you are the idiot. Quite trying to change the subject. Now repeat after me, it's not all about me.

Wizards down by two with .1 seconds to go in the game. Arenas gets the foul call and Nellie (coach) gets the T.....Arenas hits all three FT's and Wizards win by 1! Game over..... :rolleyes:

I would have given the T because it's 9 and 10 year olds. I can also see that the way you handled it worked out OK. It depends on the official. Joe Crawford gives more T's than just about anybody. Players and coaches learn it and play accordingly. Some referees let more go before whacking somebody. Neither way is wrong in my opinion.

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Something about the original post brought back a memory to me. It just took me a few days to figure it out.

Girls varsity prep school tournament game. Visiting coach had been complaining about calls most of the first half. Nothing worth a technical foul, but just a constant "nag". Just before halftime a visiting player is fouled, and as she falls to the floor, is injured, enough to bekon the coach onto the court. He comes onto the court with his trainer. The trainer tends to the injured player. The coach "tends to us" and takes this opportunity to complain to both of us that we're not calling enough fouls, we're doing a terrible job, etc. We move away from him, and he proceeds to follow us, so we move farther away. This behavior would have and should have deserved a technical foul under any other circumstance, but my partner and I discussed it a decided that we did not want to make a big deal and call a technical foul while the the player was still in pain on the floor, making every one believe that we were more concerned about the coach than the player's painful injury, but that we would give the coach no more latitude and would call a technical foul the next time he complained. Wouldn't you have it, the coach never said "boo" the entire second half.

We missed our chance. I learned from that expereience. It will never happen again.

The analogy was yours. THINK before you type. Try something different for a change, and then you can go back to the dolt you normally are.