I don't get it

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Junker

I just don't get what coaches think they are gaining from getting the T, especially in this case. Can anyone enlighten me?

I coached a middle school team for over 25 years. Once I figured out how to coach, and achieved a better understanding of the rules, which took a few years, after that, I never got a technical foul. However, there were a few, very few, times that I thought about getting one. I demanded that my players never complain to the officials, and if the officials really screwed up, that I would speak up for them, in a polite way. When you coach over 400 games, you can occassionally come across a few officials who are really, really bad. On a few occasisons, these really bad officials wouldn't even let me politely question them. On some of these occassions I almost felt that I needed to get a technical foul to show my players, and their parents in the stands, that I would stick up for my players. But my emphasis on sportsmanship always won out.