Would you have T ed ?

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Philz

A "T" I feel is more of a tool to maintain control of the game on mostly the sportsmanship side although I know its use for other things like player number not in the book and so forth but used most the time to punish unsportsman like behavior. Yes he was unsportsman like for sure but I know when he said it he wasnt thinking (I know he knows I dont know that kid and wouldnt have something agaist him) its just what came out of his mouth.

I dont care how many refs tell me they would have "T" em. And to compare that to a obvious travel is stupid.

If you don't care how many refs tell you that they would call a "T", then why did you ask us in the first place?

And doesn't the fact that basically nobody but Old School agreed with you tell you something?

Read what you wrote above. You state that a "T" is used to punish unsportsmanlike behavior. You also state that the coach's behavior was unsportsmanlike for sure. Yet you absolutely refused to punish him. And then to try and excuse your failure to take care of bidness you now start spouting nonsense like "the good of the game" and "the kids should decide the outcome of the game" and "don't want to be a factor in the game" and "suck it up and take one for the benefit of the game". All of those are nothing but very weak excuses for not doing what you're supposed to be doing as an official. Methinks you should go back to being a coach, Philz. You're just too nice a guy to ever be an official at the high school level or higher.

Remember, you asked for opinions, Philz. There's never any guarantees that you're gonna like the opinions that you hear.