Stick 'em or not?

[jeffpea]

Originally Posted by Ch1town

I don't know about you but NOBODY shouts at me on my wood.

Ego? You lost me, but thanks for chiming in.

The first line in your quote above is EXACTLY what I'm talking about when I say "get over your ego".....Those who have big ego's always seem to "bring a gun to a knife fight" - iow, they tend to pass out a tech. whenever their ego is challenged.

Sometimes you've got to take your medicine as a result of the situation that you've helped to create.

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by jeffpea

Sometimes you've got to take your medicine as a result of the situation that you've helped to create.

I agree with that, but this situation was not created by the official. The official correctly started a count and correctly granted a time-out request before the violation. In this case, if some know-it-all player wants to hand out some medicine (loudly and in front of the whole crowd), he probably should have it shoved back down his own throat.

[Mountaineer]

Originally Posted by jeffpea

The first line in your quote above is EXACTLY what I'm talking about when I say "get over your ego".....Those who have big ego's always seem to "bring a gun to a knife fight" - iow, they tend to pass out a tech. whenever their ego is challenged.

Sometimes you've got to take your medicine as a result of the situation that you've helped to create.

So, you'd allow the player to yell at you AND ignore a legal TO reqest? If that had happened I'm sure there would have been even more people yelling at you. If you wouldn't have whacked the kid for this - what would it take to deserve a T? You cannot let your knowledge of game situation control what you should and should not call. You have to take care of business. You can't let this outburst slide by.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by jeffpea

Sometimes you've got to take your medicine as a result of the situation that you've helped to create.

That's exactly the point that I was trying to make, Jeff. I don't have a problem with your personal opinion as to what the reaction should be to a player yapping. I certainly don't agree with you but everybody does have different tolerance levels. However, if you start making phantom violation/foul calls, etc. as an alternative to reacting according to the options laid out in the rules, then you're creating you own mess. You deserve everything that you subsequently get because you caused the problems.