Angry Coach at Halftime Revisit
 

I said I would get some official opinions from rules interpreters regarding this situation of what you hear in the locker room, and how to deal with it.


Federation interpretation from Ohio Rules Interpreter - e-mail
This is one of those HTBT situations (had to be there). In these situations, common sense usually is the best mechanic to rely on.

If he's addressing me, or one of my partners through the wall, then I'm advising him upon our return to the court that his comments have earned him a technical foul and the subsequent loss of his coaching box.

If he's doing what's described in the origianl situation, then I'm inclined to chalk it up to the guy being a jerk, noting the diatribe, and possibly advising an assistant that we 'heard" and took note of his comments. If he has any brains, he'll know what we mean. That assistant could possibly be your best friend in the sense that he may act as a buffer or a voice of reason on the bench.

Then again, he may be cut from the same cloth as the Head Coach.

If the latter is true, then I suspect you will be shooting foul shots at some point in the second half anyway....

To sum it up, we do have jurisdiction over what happens in the locker rooms, however, I'd advise not going looking for trouble.


From Ed Billik Rules editor NCAA men
Paraphrased from a conversation via Phone
Note that this is not something that would most likely occur in an NCAA situation.
While we are given the authority to deal with fouls and violations inside and outside the boundry lines.
You must offer the privacy of the locker room to the team, the basis would be the expectation of privacy. If the door is open that would be something else it would no longer be private. In general Stay out of it, if you over hear it report it to your assigner and let the assigner deal with it, hopefully the assigner will deal with the athletic director, the league etc.
Most likely you will have oportunity to met out the T in the second half without much effort if the coach is like this.

To issue a technical foul in this situation from a closed locker room, or something you heard through a wall, would be opening up a Pandora's box.

Similar to a team huddle, do not go into the huddle, however if you are standing outside the huddle and the unsporting act - in this case disrespectfully addressing an official occurs it is no longer private.

Sounds like your interpreter is a big, fat coward, as well as Ed Billik.

Just because you don't agree with them they are cowards?

No. Just because he doesn't agree with them means they are big and fat. :D

Tra boom.........(rim shot)

A local high school that I have 2-3 dates a year has an officials room next to home locker room with paper thin walls and coaches on every level are always screaming. I've eavesdropped a few times and have yet to hear how we are costing them the game. I did learn a few new words though.

Interesting logic, huh?

Only if you live in Nevada.:rolleyes:

I had a 7th and 8th grade game two weeks ago where the officials 'room,' if you could call it that, was in a closet IN the home locker room. Naturally, the home team lost by two at the buzzer and home coach was wining all game about the amount of fouls called against his team. Needless to say, we didn't take our time dressing to leave as we could hear the coach, who hand infected his players at that point with his point of view, moaning about how the referees 'cost [them] the game.'

Actually I am awaiting the response from our local interpreter as today is his first day back from vacation. I went to several different sources on both levels.
Including 3 rules interpretors for FED, Ed Billik, Debbie Williamson and Mary Struckoff.

I am waiting for the other responses at this time, and will post them.

Might I suggest that you contact several local interpretors and assignors and see how they feel about the situation, and then feel free to comment on their responses also.

Why does this sound familiar?

Oh yeah, I remember. That's been my position on this.

Plan to submit those new words to the dictionary writers? Some of the new words they put in the dictonaries every year are so "meh".

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Peace