Can't we all just get along?

[Adam]

and if you do #1, you'll get one of two responses:
1. the principal will eventually get the point and stop going to games.
2. #2 above will happen.

[rockyroad]

Try this advice on for size: write a letter to the school board and the superintendent of the district informing them of the slander that their principal is engaging in. It would be better yet if you had a lawyer friend who would do the letter for you...inform the board and the superintendent that if the slander continues you will be forced to pursue legal action against the principal involved AND the district employing him...that will get their attention and he will be told to knock it off.

Or you could just keep ignoring him and hope he goes away...

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by rockyroad

Try this advice on for size: write a letter to the school board and the superintendent of the district informing them of the slander that their principal is engaging in. It would be better yet if you had a lawyer friend who would do the letter for you...inform the board and the superintendent that if the slander continues you will be forced to pursue legal action against the principal involved AND the district employing him...that will get their attention and he will be told to knock it off.

Easier just to call Judge Judy.

[icallfouls]

Here's another option, since it sounds like you are stuck if you wanna make $$ doing tournaments this principal and his school come to.

Get your assignor, an attorney if you want, have the school get this guy and whoever they want to meet. Have both parties tell their side of the issue. Get it out there so that you know what this guy's real beef with you is. It sounds like there is more to this than you realize. Get down to the facts rather than guess what the issue is. Maybe he just hates your haircut.

Both parties need to get over the issue(s) and move on, and quit acting like children. Until you deal with this guy he is going to make the working environment increasingly difficult. Tossing the guy out of games repeatedly will only add credibility to his position that you have something against his school and that will hurt your ability to officiate close to home.

Good luck

[Texas Aggie]

I just feel like if I tried to have him ejected from the gym for anything short of coming onto the court screaming during the game, it would make more trouble for me.

I guess you have to choose how you handle these things, but he's not staying in my game after the "dishonest" comment. That qualifies as severe verbal abuse and not only would he have to leave, he would be reported.

As distasteful as it seems, you have to take care of business. That means not running from doing what has to be done for ANY reason. Believe me when I say I speak from experience.

You can almost always justify a technical and even an ejection. What you can't justify is the problems NOT calling what needs to be called bring about.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Texas Aggie

I guess you have to choose how you handle these things, but he's not staying in my game after the "dishonest" comment. That qualifies as severe verbal abuse and not only would he have to leave, he would be reported.

As distasteful as it seems, you have to take care of business. That means not running from doing what has to be done for ANY reason. Believe me when I say I speak from experience.

You can almost always justify a technical and even an ejection. What you can't justify is the problems NOT calling what needs to be called bring about.

From an assignor's viewpoint, I agree with the above fully and completely. Well, maybe except for the technical foul part. That I don't really recommend.

Unsporting conduct is unsporting conduct, no matter who it comes from. Part of any official's job is having to deal with it.

[Texas Aggie]

Don't misunderstand: I didn't say (or didn't intend to say) a T in THIS situation. What I meant was a T or an ejection IN GENERAL -- for causes that warrant it. And by ejection, I also meant a removal.

[Junker]

You need to toss this guy and just as importantly every other crew that goes in and hears similar stuff from him needs to give him the boot as well. Eventually someone in the district will come to the realization that this guy is a piss-poor role model for his students and shouldn't be there. He acts that way because he gets away with it.