I probably should have

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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Why do people try to use something like "by the book officiating" as an excuse to not call a "T"? And why do people try to say that you need to use "common sense officiating" to back up what is only their opinion of what common sense actually is? If a coach calls you an azzhole with 5.4 seconds to go, are you going to ignore that also because if you call it, it's "book officiating" and not "common sense officiating"?

I guess that my idea of "common sense officiating" is completely different than yours. Common sense officiating to me means that you simply take care of bidness when you have to, without making up phony excuses why you shouldn't penalize unsporting conduct. Common sense officiating also means to me that you clean up the unsporting crap so that the next set of officials might not have to deal with it either.

We'll just have to disagree on the meaning of "common sense", I guess.

I understand what you are saying, but in this case the coach didnt call you a vulgar name. If he does then by all means stick him or even run him depending on the vulgarity. That happened to me in a college game this past season. Coach said F YOU I stick him. 2 mins left he made a 15 pt comeback and lost. we had interrupted dribble and he was yelling for time out. I dont grant steal and layup. Grant the time out he comes up to the table yelling at me I wanted time, I said let me tell you why I cant grant it, he was like dont talk to me and walking back he says F YOU. I wack him. No brainer. In the scenario we are talking about would you really stick a coach for that comment?