my first coach T in two years, yuk

[devdog69]

Not a big deal but, I thought it was inappropriate and needed to be dealt with, even though I do believe the last two minutes had been helter skelter with several calls that could be questionable on tape, two of three by me. Here is the text that I am sending in, on my "unusual situation report". If approved by all of you by 10:00 a.m. tomorrow, of course, I wouldn't dare send it without your opinions. Thanks, Devon.

While at trail official, working a two-person crew, my partner, at lead, partner,
called a pushing foul on a team B player. As I froze, I observed Coach _________ (going to call school in a.m to get that info, not sure of her last name)
clapping, making me think she believed the call had gone against Team A. When my
partner gave me the shooter and reported the foul, the coach realized the call was not
going her way, and she was upset, as it was a close game with less than one minute
remaining in the game. As my partner was preparing to administer the one and one free
throws, I heard three comments from the coach, the last I felt was inappropriate. She said
“that’s on us?”, “how is that on us?”, then as my partner bounced the ball to the shooter,
the coach said, while kneeling in front of the bench, “you guys suck”. I blew a short blast
to stop the free throw, called and reported a technical foul, informed the players to vacate
the lane, conferred with my partner that we would shoot a one and one with the lane
cleared, then shoot two shots for the technical foul. I went to the midcourt line opposite
the table to avoid further conflict with the coach. After shooting the first free throw, I
observed the Team B players, coach, and substitutes, huddling in front of the bench in the
area they would have been during a 30-second timeout. They were clapping in unison, I
believed, at the very least, to be disconcerting to the shooter. I gave a short blast of the
whistle, approached the bench area, told their players to go to the midcourt line and told
the coach to sit down. The game ended with no further incident.

To summarize, there was no problem with the coach, in my opinion, before or after the
described incident. I believe it was simply an inappropriate comment by a frustrated
coach, nothing more.

[Edited by devdog69 on Dec 7th, 2001 at 10:55 AM]