Way Too Many "Players" Warming Up

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Before the jump ball to start the game, I take the coach aside and quietly explain to him, a first year coach, that his team is not allowed to do that in Connecticut. He says that he didn't know that. This was probably his eighth or ninth home game. What have my colleagues been doing for the past month and a half?

Your colleagues may have been telling him the exact same thing, Billy. Wouldn't be the first time that a coach tried to get away with something and then claimed that no one had ever called him on it before. Happens all the time ...as in "The officials last week let him wear it....".