My first (high school) ejection

[OHBBREF]

I have to say I might have gotten him before the end of regulation, however I have to say I admire your restraint in making absolutly sure on the second T that everyone there knew it was going to happen.

I also admire your restraint in not giving you partner a foot in the backside during the game?

I hope that there was some discussion of this after the game, and in the report you filed?
Weak officials like that are why there are always points of emphasis on coaches and player behavior. If everyone would just take care of business when necessary, the coaches would understand what they can do all the time and most of this crap would be eliminated. But because some wet noodles let them get away with this stuff, everyone has to put up with it.

I was shadowing a kid during a training class earlier this year and we told the coach to go off on him. The kid kept looking at me like I needed to give him permission to call the T, (and it was personal and directed right at him), his partner finally got the coach from the other side of the floor.

Asked him what he was waiting for?
Well I have seen coaches do worse and not get a T in college!

Wow!

[fiasco]

Originally Posted by OHBBREF

I also admire your restraint in not giving you partner a foot in the backside during the game?

Well, I had a whole speech planned and some theatrics (throwing my jacket, etc)

But the first thing he said when he got back to the changing room* was "Oh, I was getting ready to give him that second T, but you beat me to it."

I just rolled my eyes, gave him a similar lecture about getting the job done because someone's gotta do it, and left it at that.


*So after the game, the moment the buzzer sounds, of course I'm booking it back to the locker room. I turn around as I'm almost completely off the court into the hallway and my partner is nowhere to be found!! Then I see him at the scorer’s table talking to the AD!!!

So, I run back to the locker room alone (where the head coach is waiting outside the door to berate my, by the way). I ignore him and go into the locker room and immediately the varsity refs say “Where the heck is your partner?”

I just shrug my shoulders and say “I guess he decided to have a conversation with the AD on the floor after the game.”

They couldn’t believe it either. They gave him a decent tongue lashing after the game for that.

Originally Posted by fiasco

So after the game, the moment the buzzer sounds, of course I'm booking it back to the locker room...

So, I run back to the locker room alone (where the head coach is waiting outside the door to berate my, by the way).

I just shrug my shoulders and say “I guess he decided to have a conversation with the AD on the floor after the game.”

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Was it a close ending? I just ask because you said you book/ran off the court.

I would help my partner off the court (especially if I'm the R) because if he has to T someone after the game then you might have to clock back in... wait a minute, he proved that he's not gonna T anybody