When to give a "T"

[pank]

At the end of my first year of reffing varsity high school ball, I was being evaluated by one of the state association observers.

I correctly called an offensive foul and the player's coach went off--standing up and kicking his chair. I marched right by him without even glancing and checked in the foul as my veteran partner ran over in front of the coach, protecting me as I moved to the other side of the floor- without calling a T.

During halftime, the observer, who was an experienced HS and college official, said the offensive call was the right call but "but you missed one thing," he said, as he gave the T sign. "Never let a coach grandstand you," he said.

I never forgotten those words and use that as my guideline.

There's still a lot of communicating you can do with a coach to avoid the T as the other posts indicate.