City league technicals.

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

It seems that you officiate for a well-run league which has a strong desire to discourage unsporting behavior. That is the conclusion I draw from reading that earning a technical foul in it also mandates the loss of twenty minutes of participation. Nothing gets through to a kid like the loss of playing time!

So if you raise your threshold for assessing a technical foul in order to help the kids avoid the tougher penalty, then you are counteracting the message that the league is trying to send. What you call game management, I see as undermining the objective of the policy and the league directors who decided upon it.

+1

This seems exactly right to me. The rationale for the additional penalty is to send a firmer message about unsporting behavior. Help the league out by identifying that behavior.

We've addressed the "frustration bounce" in other threads. Some think it's always unsporting, whether the player is responding to an official's call or a teammate's poor play. Others would advise you to warn, then whack when unsure what the player's responding to.

Either way, it's worth addressing this behavior sooner rather than later, as it doesn't improve with age.