Handling Coaches After T

[tomegun]

Originally Posted by Drizzle

...someone else should go tableside to attempt to diffuse the situation if necessary...

Originally Posted by doubleringer

...rotate away and have another official manage them.

This is what I pregame - something I got from a D1 official: If one of us gives a coach a T, the other two officials will not engage that coach until the calling official does. I also ammend it for high school to say the only thing I will say to a coach (from a distance), "Coach, you must remain seated for the rest of the game" and then I show him or her my back side because that is all I have to say. Another friend of mine who is in the D-League says we shouldn't even say anything to them about remaining seated. In his opinion, they should know the rule.

Point is, if a coach's behavior has earned him or her a T, 1) there shoudn't be any "managing" necessary and 2) an official shouldn't go over there and give the coach a shoulder to cry on. No, you (the coach) did what you did, my partner thought it was worthy of a T and since my partner is part of my team I'm not going to do anything that could possibly perceived as undermining him or her (my partner). This is along the lines of explaining one of my partners' calls. I'm just not going to do it.