Bobby Huggins Ejection

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by mbyron

Seemed productive to me.

No longer though.

Time to let this one die a natural death.

Opinion appreciated, Mike.

[Jay R]

I dump on you, you dump on me, somebody stands up for me. This could go on all day, and it does.

What can the average official (I'm very average) learn from this situation with Huggins?

1. It's good to have rules of thumb like not going to the team's huddle at the begining of a timeout and not having the same official give both Ts

2. Rules of thumb don't always apply. Sometimes you HAVE the give the coach or the player the boot right away

3. Nobody knows what exactly was said but everyone who saw the video came away with their perception. (I would like to know what Stuart was doing there in the first place but if it was Huggins who called him over, then so be it)

4. Some coaches (like Huggins) have a hard time restraining themselves. Whether the ejection was warranted or not, I don't know. But I do know that Huggins used the word "motherf***ker" when he was speaking to Cahill after the Ts. Hardly a class act.

We had an official in our area eject a coach on successive technical fouls earlier this year. The first T was for loudly objecting to a call. About 15 seconds later, the coach quietly commented that he would contact the league. He was gone. In my opinion, the official could have easily ignored the second comment because he was one of the only people in the gym who heard it. He felt the comment by the coach was undermining him. From an outsider's point of view, it appeared that this official was eager to hand out the second T.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Jay R

We had an official in our area eject a coach on successive technical fouls earlier this year. The first T was for loudly objecting to a call. About 15 seconds later, the coach quietly commented that he would contact the league. He was gone. In my opinion, the official could have easily ignored the second comment because he was one of the only people in the gym who heard it. He felt the comment by the coach was undermining him. From an outdider's point of view, it appeared that this official was eager to hand out the second T.

To me, this 2nd T should be an easy call. No matter which way you look at it, he's threatening the official; he's also testing him to see if he has any stones. When I was in Iowa, a directive came from the state that explicitly said we were to toss a coach who threatened to rate us poorly.

[Welpe]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

To me, this 2nd T should be an easy call. No matter which way you look at it, he's threatening the official; he's also testing him to see if he has any stones. When I was in Iowa, a directive came from the state that explicitly said we were to toss a coach who threatened to rate us poorly.

I agree. That deserves a ticket home.

[Rich]

"You'll never work this [school, conference, league] again" is a ticket to the locker room for me.

If the coach has the power to get me chunked from a conference (as apparently a local football coach did, since I haven't worked that conference in 6 years), then I'd rather not work the conference at all. In the meantime I can't think of one good reason to let that coach finish the game.

[budjones05]

Technical fouls are just part of the game. I do not know what was said, but I will say judging Coach Huggins behvior throughout the years I feel it's been overdue to run his A**. I'm sure the Big East will look into this and hand out punishment as they seem fit. I tried not to give the second techincal but sometimes you just have to flat out handle your business. Nobody has more respect for sports officials than us. But sometimes those officials are afraid to handle business.