Officials and Development

[rainmaker]

Originally Posted by dan74

home team's coach announces, although not real loudly, "that's a travel."

With a couple minutes to go before the half, the home team coach again announces, "that's a travel," which again wasn't real loud.

Home team coach responds, "that's a make up call for the ones you guys missed. That's three for them and one for us."

I turned and told the coach that was enough and that he needed to coach his team and let us officiate.

Within a minute after starting the second half, the home team's coach announced, "that's a carry." I hit my whistle and administered the T.

Here's the deal: I didn't try to immediately analyze whether the coach had good reason to question our calls or non-calls, sorry Oracle. I simply issued a "T," and didn't sweat it afterward, as many have suggested.

With that said, however, I will keep working on my game management skills, or lack thereof.

Sounds pretty good. I learned the hard way not to say, "You coach, I'll officiate." It's a set up for him to say, "Well then you start doing it!" At which point you have to T him. Better to say, "Coach, that's enough reffing." or just (as you did) "Coach, that's enough".

And I know others won't agree with this, but I'd have given him one more stop sign or "that's enough" or hairy eyeball for the first complaint after half-time.

Also, if it's not real loud, sometimes you can just define what he's doing as talking to himself, and practice feeling sorry for the girls who aren't getting a good learning experience. But that will depend on where you've drawn your line. You knew what your limit was, you communicated taht line and you didn't have a chip on your shoulder. That's a pretty good job!