Thought I could get throught the season but noooo....
 

Final set of games on my schedule for the year, Girls and Boys 8th grade games. I have been told all season by members of the association, I'm new to the Savannah area, how bad the coaches in the area run off at the mouth but I didn't have any issues this season. 3 minutes to go in the 3rd quarter of the Girls game, red player drives the basket, defender chasing, defender fouls, partner has the call, red player stumbles into the wall padding. She then walks a few feet toward her bench, sits down and starts to cry. Coach begins to head her direction so I hit the whistle to alert my partner we have a stoppage of play because of the "injury." After 30 seconds or so, she gets up and starts to head to the free throw line. My conversation with the coach went something like this:

Me: Coach, I need a sub for #12.
Coach: What! Why!
Me: We stopped play for you to attend to her.
coach: She was hurt...you should have called an intentional foul.
Me: I understand coach...I need a sub please.
Coach: This is ridiculous...she was intentionally fouled!
Me: I still need a sub coach.
Coach: I'm not sending in a sub!
Me: Tweet...report T. Coach, sub please.

Sub enters, misses both free throws. White misses both free throws. And away we went. Coach was fine the rest of the game. So much for my "perfect" season...

Did you give him a 20 second clock?

This is the part that's missing. And if he refuses to have a sub ready at the 2nd horn, the technical pretty much calls itself. It's what happened to me in a GV game a few weeks ago (it was on a disqualification, but it's the same principal).

I also think there are a lot of officials that don't realize that there is a 20-second interval in this situation that starts when the coach is done attending to the player and clearly turns to the task at providing a sub.

Just so you know, here's how the conversation should have gone.
He may have still persisted and earned his T, but it might have been prevented with the proper mechanics.

I didn't realize you should start a 20 second clock after a player has been attended to and you are waiting for a sub to come to the table. I don't think I have ever had a coach refuse to put in a sub after an injury to a player. Have had trouble getting a sub from time to time after a foul out but the 20 second horn takes care of that, though I have never had to issue a technical because of that, though a few times have forgot to start the time because of a "healthy" discussion with the coach. Sometimes in those moments especially dealing with Middle School coaches the right mechanic slips the mind from time to time.

Snaqwells,
Thanks for posting good suggestions to use with coaches and other situations! I had a similar problem two weeks ago and I wish I would have done what you indicated.

LW

That's understandable, and most of these coaches will continue arguing until you start the clock. At most, he'll talk to a wall for 20 seconds until the T is issued. Report the T and repeat as necessary.

you guys get to CLOCK the coaches for 20 seconds?
do you use clubs or just fists? :rolleyes:

Whatever is available. In MS games, we don't even have to use the rule of thumb.

OHBBREF:

Since I have been playing golf since I was nine years old I have always favored a sand wedge myself, but Rebok has a new baseball bat that has holes in the handle to decrease drag and I intend to try during the summer basketball season, :D.

MTD, Sr.


P.S. But none-the-less, I still follow Bill Cosby's father's advice: Hit for distance.

I was turning to the table to ask them to time 20 seconds for me when the coach, a woman by the way, told me she "would not send in a sub." My belief at that point was she had crossed the line and deserved the T. I could have waited for the 20 seconds but it wouldn't have made any difference. She simply wanted me to know she was unhappy with the lack of an intentional foul call.

Fair enough, but I would highly recommend taking the extra 20 seconds for a variety of reasons.

Trust Snaq on this, he's 100% on the mark....it's hard to get yourself in trouble when you follow the rules.

Yup, otherwise you have:
Assigner: So, is it true that you gave Coach Fidiot a T for not giving you a sub?
Ref: Yes.
Assigner: Is it true you didn't give her the 20 second sub clock?
Ref: Yes.
Assigner: So what was your rule basis for the T?
Ref: ????


By rule, coach has 20 seconds to provide the sub, and what they say in the interim does not shorten that time limit. You called the T before she broke the rule.

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Snags..nice job on how to handle the situation and how to utilize the 20sec. clock in the sitch. I'm new and DID NOT realize that you could/should use the clock in the injury sub sitch. AND that you don't utilize it unti lthe HC is finished attending to the injured player.
Filed away for future reference&use if/when necessary.

Why wasn't the coach offered to take a time out?

"Coach, you have a choice you can put a sub in for your injured player or you may take a time out and she can stay in."

You don't want to take a time out? Ok you have 20 seconds to replace your player. Timer give me 20 seconds."

I have a nice new hybrid 2-iron that would be perfect for this.

Unless he is unsportsmanlike in the process, of course.

Of course, which leads to a question.
Ref: "Coach, I need a sub."
Coach: "Yuck Fou, I'm not giving you one."

You give the unsporting T, but do you wait to report it until the 20 second clock has expired or the sub is in? If the coach waits the full 20 seconds, does he get two now?

The coach was walking the legal path to a T if you had let her. You have no second thoughts when they do it for you by rule.

As for clocking, 20 sec. is a long time. You'd think security would step in by then. Ouch!

Whacking is much quicker.

All excellent points in this "seemingly" simple situation. First of all, I like Shaqs reminder about the 20 second timeframe. I also like shish's suggestion regarding offering a timeout request. Having been on both "sides" of this situation in the past, I would like to offer yet another possibility -- which provides some rules information, an option, then execution. If not followed, the same T will result.

I try to keep the coach off of the floor if I don't think the player is injured (knowing that the player must be replaced or a TO spent to buy the player back into the game). In youth games, players (girls more so than boys, but it applies to both) tend to think they are hurt much more seriously than they are. But, once I beckon the coach, what is done is done.

To start with, I try to stay away from the coach while he/she is working with the player. Once the player is able to get up and proceed to the sideline, I would prefer to have one of my non-foul-calling partners (or only partner) inform the coach of the situation.

Partner: Coach, as you know, the rules require that, regardless of the reason, you replace an injured player once you come out on the floor to check on the player.
Coach: That isn't fair, that was an intentional foul.
Partner: I understand coach, but the rules still state that you must replace an injured player once you come out on the floor to check on the player. Another option available to you is you can call a timeout at this time. In this case, your player would then be able to shoot her free throws. Otherwise, we need a sub per the rules.

This method allows for communicating the rule to the coach by the non-calling official. It also provides an inferred compliment to the coach (that he or she knows the rule). The option of calling the timeout is provided to the coach, as well.

I am also slower to start the 20 second clock in this case. I will NOT start the clock until the player is completely off the court and either heading to the locker room or in the bench area. At that point, I ask the timer to start the 20 second clock time interval for the substitute requesting the warning horn at the five second mark.

In this case, the fact that the coach apparently came out onto the floor without being beckoned (I know, by rule, a technical foul, but common sense tells us to allow the coach to check on the player). Once jmuvol sounded the whistle, it would have been advisable for the non-calling official to have the conversation with the coach.

If the coach continued to be belligerent in this case, an unsporting technical foul could have been called without waiting the 20 seconds, in my opinion. Would I have waited the 20 seconds as Shaqs suggests? Quite probably, yes. But, at the same time, the coach was being defiant. I could see an assignor accepting the calling of a technical foul in this case without waiting for the 20 seconds. The technical would not be for failing to provide a sub in the required 20 seconds, it would be for unsporting behavior.

BTW, what you say here is provided for directly in the case book (10.5.2 Situation A). I am pretty anal about not starting any clock until the right moment, including waiting until both teams are in their huddles before starting a time-out clock.

I like where you're going with this and, although it's not our responsibility to remind the coach he may keep the player in the game with a TO, it is likely good game management.

From what I read in the OP, jmuvol WAS the non-calling official...so by your thinking it was entirely appropriate for him to have the conversation with the coach. As you said, common sense should dictate our actions when there is a player down and not being in a hurry to start the 20-sec. replacement clock is smart.

However, there's no need to let the coach engage you in an extended discussion. I think Snaq's point is, once the player is off the floor, the 20-sec. clock is your friend and you shouldn't be afraid to use it as detailed in the rules. It didn't appear to me from the OP that the 20-sec. replacement interval was even considered.

Exactly, follow up from the OP says he was about to start it. Skipping this step can only lead to trouble, and the only benefit is it saves 20 seconds. In all likelihood, this coach won't say anything to any assigner. Coach probably doesn't even know she was due a 20 second clock.
However, the chance of this coming back to bite is bigger than the benefit of saving 20 seconds.

This was my first thought as well. You're demanding that the coach do something that she doesn't really have to do.

Ref: Coach, I need a sub.
Coach: Why? She's ok now!
Ref: If you don't want to sub, I can give you a time-out to keep her in. Which do you want?

Lesson Learned
 

Thanks for all the input folks. The thought of offering her a time out never crossed my mind. I'll store all these away for use at a later date. :)

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Girls varsity game. Blowout, late in the game. A1, winning team's best player, by far, get fouled in the act of shooting, the ball doesn't go in, I'm the lead on her free throws.

She misses the first free throw, nothing spectacular here, so far, and as I'm about to bounce the ball to her for her second try, she's not looking at me, but is looking at the floor, at a small pool of blood, from a scratch on her arm, not gushing blood, but it was a steady drip. We escort her to the bench area, where the trainer attends to her.

Meanwhile, I'm asking the site director to get some paper towels to clean up the small pool of blood on the court. Site director disappears out a side door. I advise the players to go to their bench areas. Eventually home, losing, coach, puts on some gloves, and wipes up the blood with some paper towels. Now my partner and I are getting ready to get the game going again when a custodian shows up, very upset that the coach took care of the blood, explaining to me that school rules dictate that only he can handle blood, as he proceeds to spray the area with some disinfectant, and then towels the area dry.

This has now taken about five minutes, and A1, remember her, is taped, and ready to go. I inform coach of Team A, winning, late in a blowout game, that either A1 needs a substitute, or he must take a timeout to allow A1 to shoot the free throw. He replies that he shouldn't have to take a timeout because it was blood, not an injury. I explain that the rule is very clear, and that he has the choice of a substitute, or a timeout, so he starts looking down the bench to find a substitute, when A1 tells her coach, that's right, she tells the coach, that she wants the timeout, and she wants to take the free throw. Not that I should of had one, but my opinion of her dropped a notch, she seemed selfish, because the free throw point wasn't really needed in this game, and she seemed kind of bossy to her adult coach, and I remember saying to myself, what a lot of nerve for a kid to say that to her coach. He says he'll take the timeout, which I found hard to believe, but that's not my call, and it's not really any of my business.

Now a few more minutes have passed by, and we get all the players back on the court, and lined up for the free throw by A1. After all these distractions, I announce two shots, which my partner, coaches, and fans, have no problem with. A1 says to me, "I only get one shot sir, remember I missed the first one". My opinion of her went back up a notch. Most kids would have taken the extra shot.