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Reaching for a T
There have been numerous threads about reaching into your partners area to grab a call. This one is along those lines but it concerns a T.
I started a thread about a timing error. We corrected it and moved on. But before we moved on the coach got into my partners drawers about how we handled it. At one point throwing his hands up in the air to let everyone know he was not happy about our decision. Partner is at Division line. I'm lead. Small gym so benches are all the way to the division line. So coach is right on top of partner. I thought partner should have Teed him up. partner passed. Varsity officials coming in behind us thought like I did. My question is would you have reached to reward this coach his T ? I chose not to because it happened right in front of partner and figured he had his reasons for not throwing T. He had some ref jibberish for not throwing the T. What say you ? |
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I would most likely not reach for this one. If my partner can't take care of his own business, my reaching out to do it for him is only likely to show him up. However, that coach has just shortened his own leash and I'm not going to make the same mistake my partner did if the opportunity arises again.
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You thought he should have got it and so did the varsity officials. It sounds like your partner was reluctant to handle business. As long as the coach is directing it totally at your partner without saying anything about the crew and he/she isn't being a total jerk, your partner has to deal with it. Otherwise, I would go after it.
If everyone except him thought the coach should have got a T, did you tell him that? The same thing could happen in another game and the seed might not have been planted in his head. This has been said before and most assigners would probably agree: you can help someone stop calling Ts, but it is harder to get them to start.
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My assignor is of the belief that not enough T's are given. He believes that things in our area are borderline anarchy. ![]() My assignor |
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This is great. You should have absolutely called--not reached--a T for this, provided that someone explained how the timing error was rectified with that coach. If he got an explanation, and the game was to move on, he needs to let it go at that point. The timing error was not the crew's fault. This is the first time I've read one of these where it looks like the coach has easily earned a T, because there should be nothing subjective about fixing a timing error. And if you don't do it, that coach owns your partner--and the crew. Did things deteriorate after this incident, or did everything settle down?
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