Technical or Warning

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by tomegun

An unsporting act is an unsporting act regardless of how thick your skin may be.

Disagree. There's black, white, and gray.

Black areas may represent a situation where none of us, with the possible exception of the few of us who may be overly officious officials, with unbelievably thin skin, would ever charge a technical foul. First period, first complaint by coach, load enough to be only heard by players, coaches, and officials, "C'mon Billy, he traveled. We need a break".

White areas may represent a situation where almost all of us, with the possible exception of officials who are hearing impaired, will pretty much charge a technical foul every single time, almost automatically. "He traveled. Get your ****ing head in the game".

Gray areas may represent areas where the personality of the coach, the personality of the official, the stage of the game, the type of game, the relationship between the coach and the official, etc. all come into play. Situations that may be gray areas include those in which the coach's complaints are persistent, or those where the coach has interfered with the officials' concentration. One man's technical foul is another man's warning. Another man's warning is, yet, another man's decision to ignore. We're not robots.