Put me out of my misery...

[LDUB]

Originally Posted by MadCityRef

9 techs in 37 games is not good.

So what is an acceptable number of technical fouls for 37 games? You act as if these arbitrary numbers matter for something. Situations occur which need to be handled.

[blindzebra]

Originally Posted by LDUB

So what is an acceptable number of technical fouls for 37 games? You act as if these arbitrary numbers matter for something. Situations occur which need to be handled.

Exactly.

A few years ago, I had gone an entire season without one, my partner only had called one, and in a course of 3 games I had 1 each on a player and coach, 1 on a player, and the last game 3 players and a coach.

So which is it?

I'm a great game manager with zero in 30 games or I completely became a tech happy bully with 7 in 3 games?

FYI, that means I called 7 in 33 games, so I guess I have a problem too.

[Nevadaref]

Here are my thoughts:
Your assignor has no backbone. Your local V official is an weak-willed sissy that's why he gets varsity games from that assignor. Team B's coach is a jack@ss.

If I had been sitting in the fifth row behind the bench and observed you, I would have stood up and applauded as the coach walked out.

Keep taking care of business and don't worry about the opinions of those who don't.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Here are my thoughts:
Your assignor has no backbone. Your local V official is an weak-willed sissy that's why he gets varsity games from that assignor. Team B's coach is a jack@ss.

If I had been sitting in the fifth row behind the bench and observed you, I would have stood up and applauded as the coach walked out.

Keep taking care of business and don't worry about the opinions of those who don't.

Amen to that. I've had those days and I'm glad they're over for now.

What the OP did was absolutely warranted. Lower level coaches are used to getting officials that can't or won't take care of business. Instead of listening to the OP and directing his players to knock it off, the coach baited you into calling technical number 1. By giving you the Heisman, he told the OP he was irrelevant and that he was going to do whatever he liked.

I would've gotten dressed and left and not said anything to the assignor. Back then. Today I would've told him exactly what I thought of him and then backed up the bus and ran it over him again. And then, if the state is involved in picking the assignor, I'd probably send a report to them, as well. I've done this once before (in another state) when I ejected our baseball assignor coaching a basketball game and he threatened my schedule. In a year, he was gone from both jobs.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Here are my thoughts:
Your assignor has no backbone. Your local V official is an weak-willed sissy that's why he gets varsity games from that assignor. Team B's coach is a jack@ss.

If I had been sitting in the fifth row behind the bench and observed you, I would have stood up and applauded as the coach walked out.

Keep taking care of business and don't worry about the opinions of those who don't.

Amen also.

There was no reason for the assignor to get involved in the first place unless he received a complaint. And if he did get a complaint, the facts of the situation deem that the official should have been backed to the hilt. The coach got a righteous "T". He was rightfully seatbelted. And now he think that he can still wander around all over the damn floor? No f'ing way!

Your assignor and Mr. Veteran Official really, really need to grow a new crop. You'll be around when both of them are gone, NM_Ref.

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

NM_Ref:

I want to second my Amen to what Nevada and JR said in their posts. I would say that you handled both situations with HC-B correctly. HC-B decided to take all the rope that he needed to hang himself.

MTD, Sr.

[inigo montoya]

Your assignor demonstrated absolutely terrible leadership and management by doing what he did. I know I'm also a new official, but...

The coach's retort when you attempted to warn his bench seems to me that it warranted the T, especially since you weren't even warning the coach directly. It didn't come out of a confrontation between the two of you. The stop-sign is completely out of line, again IMO.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by blindzebra

Exactly.

A few years ago, I had gone an entire season without one, my partner only had called one, and in a course of 3 games I had 1 each on a player and coach, 1 on a player, and the last game 3 players and a coach.

So which is it?

I'm a great game manager with zero in 30 games or I completely became a tech happy bully with 7 in 3 games?

FYI, that means I called 7 in 33 games, so I guess I have a problem too.

Same logic I've sent out to others in the no "T" or "ejection" crowd.

Last season, I had 2 baseball ejections all season. The year before I had 9. So I guess I was bad one season and better the next.

GMAFB. I can't control whether I have an idiot standing on the sideline or in the dugout - I can only control if he gets to stick around.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by LDUB

So what is an acceptable number of technical fouls for 37 games?

However many are warranted. No more, no less.