Double Foul

[CoachP]

Ohhhhhhhhh! BillyMac is so gonna jump off the wagon!!!

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by CoachP

Ohhhhhhhhh! BillyMac is so gonna jump off the wagon!!!

Actually, I think psychology tells us that either comments referring to a comment about someone jumping off the wagon, or merely a comment about jumping off the wagon are worse!

[doubleringer]

Obviously you try to get the first contact, but I see no problem with the double foul on occasion. When I have used it, I tend to go with it early in the game to set the tone of what we will allow in the post and what we will not. It does seem to clean things up in a hurry.

[Back In The Saddle]

I have occasionally had to call a double foul. But I've never had to call it twice in the same game. A very effective tool IMO.

[Freddy]

I agree with a previous comment. Though used sparingly, calling a justified double foul is an effective tool to quell a brewing situation.

[mbyron]

If you have two fouls but don't call a double foul, what's the alternative? A personal and a technical? Ignore the second due to the dead ball unless flagrant?

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by mbyron

If you have two fouls but don't call a double foul, what's the alternative? A personal and a technical? Ignore the second due to the dead ball unless flagrant?

An alternative is to call a regular personal foul on one of the knuckleheads, and make it clear to them both that the next one will be on the other knucklehead. I've used that approach before too, and it's been effective for me.

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by CoachP

Ohhhhhhhhh! BillyMac is so gonna jump off the wagon!!!

You have to admit, the original post was just begging for a picture!

[CoachP]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

You have to admit, the original post was just begging for a picture!

Yeah, BTW where IS BillyMac today???

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by CoachP

Yeah, BTW where IS BillyMac today???

Therapy?

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

Therapy?

That was last week.

[BillyMac]

Two seasons ago, I had a partner, a veteran, who calls a pretty good game, but doesn't pay too much attention to rules, or mechanics, ream me out at halftime for calling a double foul in the first half, and to never call a double foul in any of his games ever again. I filed that "constructive criticism" under, "When In Rome". These two kids were elbowing each other at the mid-post position. They didn't heed my warning to, "Knock it off". My double foul cleaned up that type of action for the rest of the game.

My philosophy is that if it will make a difference in the game, call it, but call it early in the game, and, although it's not as important, early in the season. I make sure to call at least one double foul a season during my scrimmages.

Ten of the seventy-five questions, that's 13%, on the 2008-09 IAABO Refresher Exam were about double fouls? I don't think that I've called ten double fouls in the past five years, from high school varsity, all the way down to third graders, in hundreds of games.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Two seasons ago, I had a partner, a veteran, who calls a pretty good game, but doesn't pay too much attention to rules, or mechanics, ream me out at halftime for calling a double foul in the first half, and to never call a double foul in any of his games ever again. I filed that "constructive criticism" under, "When In Rome".

What makes your partner the emperor?

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by CoachP

Yeah, BTW where IS BillyMac today???

Hey. Some of us have to work for a living.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by CoachP

Ohhhhhhhhh! BillyMac is so gonna jump off the wagon!!!

I'm keeping my eyes closed.