Strange Night

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Originally Posted by Eckley

I officiated 2 Girls CYO games last night - the 4th, 5th, and 6th grade "JV" game and the 7th and 8th grade "Varsity" game. It was an interesting night.

Early in the varsity game I called a push on B1, who was guarding the ball handler A1. It wasn't a hard foul, but it was definitely a foul. B Coach starts chirping that "This isn't tiddlywinks! This is the Schuylkill League! You can't call that a foul!" I told him I had no idea what tiddlywinks was and that it was obviously something from before my time (I'm 27).

Tiddlywinks is a game played with small disks (like small gambling chips) played on a table. The players use one disk to attempt to flip the other disks into a cup by putting pressure on the edge of one disk with the one in his/her hand.

It is frequently used to describe a very passive situation or a very simple game. The coach's analogy would have been clear to me. Unfortunately, the coach needs to know his audience.