T'able offense?

[fiasco]

Originally Posted by Indianaref

This is the first thing I thought of when reading OP. What did your partner have to say? Are other officials refusing to do this jerk's
games as well?

A lot of the other officials are buddy-buddy with all the guys in the league. Go way back, you know? So they put up with a lot more crap than I do, or I get more crap than they do since the players don't know me. Either way, I don't really care how they officiate, and they know how I officiate. They know that I don't put up with players' attitudes. (Later that same night as the OP, I tossed a kid who followed me to the scorer's table as I assessed his first technical foul and then stayed on me as I tried to walk away from him. My partner did nothing.)

To be honest, I wonder if a lot of the guys who ref in this league are in it just for the paycheck. They call what they need to call to "get the job done" but other than that, they don't want to ruffle feathers.

I made a point to switch on every foul in that game, especially after I called two straight fouls on the guy. My partner was calling plenty of fouls himself, just not on this guy. I would not be surprised in the least if this player was intentionally being more aggressive in front of me in order to get 4 fouls so he could mouth off to me and dare me to toss him.