Double Technical - Player Disqualification

[rainmaker]

Originally Posted by coach41

How do most of you keep yourselves locked into all you have to do as a ref? Is it through experience? Or is that something that can be learned?

Both learning and experience. What you work on is getting the little things to become habits, so that you don't have to be "locked into" them. This is how you learn to read. You start with phonics, but you don't use phonics when you are an adult, except when you discover a new word. SO with reffing, you start by consciously having to think about all the details, but as they become more automatic, you begin to learn to parse the sentences and paragraphs, so to speak. You can learn all this more quickly by not only reffing, but also talking about reffing, and watching good refs from the stands.

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by rainmaker

Both learning and experience. What you work on is getting the little things to become habits, so that you don't have to be "locked into" them. This is how you learn to read. You start with phonics, but you don't use phonics when you are an adult, except when you discover a new word. SO with reffing, you start by consciously having to think about all the details, but as they become more automatic, you begin to learn to parse the sentences and paragraphs, so to speak. You can learn all this more quickly by not only reffing, but also talking about reffing, and watching good refs from the stands.

I think I agree with this. But I had trouble with some of the big words; so I'm not entirely sure.

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

In my pregame, I tell my partner that under normaL circumstances, if I'm the calling official, I will tell the coach that his or her player is disqualified, unless I believe that my presence near the coach will lead to a technical foul on the coach,

I agree with this. If it's an obvious situation, just turn around and say, "Coach, that's 5". If it's heated, then have a partner do it.