So. . . how did YOUR night go?

[referee99]

Originally Posted by kgeorge0263

Oh..I forgot...early 4th quarter visiting team applying heavy pressure and fouls ball handler. I call a foul and one of the visiting players on my way to the table calls me a "homo"...so whack..."T". Coach asks why...and I told him what he called me.

Maybe it was a "Homer" bomb!

[Adam]

Originally Posted by kgeorge0263

The coach did not pull him...I think he still had issues about the offensive foul. I can see your perspective of running the kid, but they were down 10 and didn't want to create more pandemonium. He did not say it very loud, but audible enough for me to hear it. It was a packed house...so I'm quite sure no one else could've heard him.

Honestly, around here, i don't care if I'm the only one who heard it. If it was loud enough to get a T, it's loud enough to toss for that word. I understand your reluctance, but I would have felt none

Originally Posted by kgeorge0263

So how do you justify to the coach why a "t" was administered? Should there be no explanation for it? We are to communicate with coaches when they ask questions (he did ask me in a calm manner), I feel I can tell him the need for the technical foul.

Just my 2 cents.

billy was just being billy, something like this he should be told. The fact that he didn't pull his kid is concerning for me, to be frank.

[eyezen]

Originally Posted by Judtech

We played the better part of the 2nd half with a boys ball.....and the team cut our 20 pt lead to 8!

Illinois perhaps?

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by kgeorge0263

The coach did not pull him...I think he still had issues about the offensive foul. I can see your perspective of running the kid, but they were down 10 and didn't want to create more pandemonium.

Oh my.......

You wouldn't call a well-deserved flagrant foul because you were afraid of the reaction.

Yes, "afraid" is the correct word.

Oh my.......

Sorry, but that player has to go and a report also has to be put in after the game.

Oh my......

[rlarry]

Originally Posted by kgeorge0263

So how do you justify to the coach why a "t" was administered? Should there be no explanation for it? We are to communicate with coaches when they ask questions (he did ask me in a calm manner), I feel I can tell him the need for the technical foul.

Just my 2 cents.

Coach= "What did he say?"
Me= "Ask him."

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by rlarry

Coach= "What did he say?"
Me= "Ask him."

I usually don't shut down communication with coaches like this unless they've already burned the bridge. I think it's important to have the adults on the same page as long as they're acting like adults.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by mbyron

I usually don't shut down communication with coaches like this unless they've already burned the bridge. I think it's important to have the adults on the same page as long as they're acting like adults.

Yup.

In my experience, the great majority of coaches honestly don't want crap like this coming from their players and will do something internally about it...if they know about it.

If you do run into a coach that wants to wiseazz back at you after you (quickly) explained the "T", just deal with it.

[rlarry]

Originally Posted by mbyron

I usually don't shut down communication with coaches like this unless they've already burned the bridge. I think it's important to have the adults on the same page as long as they're acting like adults.

Neither do I. But earlier in his post he mentioned that the coach was livid earlier in the game from an offensive foul that was called.

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Don't we have a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy in officiating?

That policy was just overturned by Congress.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

That policy was just overturned by Congress.

Effective later.

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

Here's mine.

Double technical foul three and a half minutes into the game. Flagrant technical for a punch during a dead ball with 6:10 left in the game. Unsporting technical with 3:45 left in game after kid fouled out.

Only saving grace is that nobody came off the benches after the punch.

Happy holidays.

I have heard this scenario before. Probably the same game. Did you at least get a shower afterward?

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by kgeorge0263

So I transferred boards and now a new face for boys varsity game. Had a big time rivalry game last night. Could've used a 3rd official but my partner and I called a good game. Had a total from our crew of 7 charges. 1 on 1 in first minute of 2nd quarter.

So ball comes inbounds to visiting team in front of bench, heavy pressure by a home team guard. A big man sets an obvious illegal screen and the guard hits the deck. Gotta have a whistle and call offensive foul. Coach is livid...

He calls my assigner after the game saying I wasn't ready for that type of game, but I recall my call selection, no calls (let them block shots), etc...I was quite happy. Wish I had a game tape to see that play to confirm it was the right call.

Happy Holidays!

That is a lot of players fouling out. I guess each team had a chance to win, so there was no need to whip out the travesty card.

[bbcof83]

Originally Posted by kgeorge0263

Wish I had a game tape to see that play to confirm it was the right call.

Call up the home coach and ask if you can get a copy. I do it fairly often and most coaches are very accommodating as long as you do as much as you can on your end (send a DVD and stamped/addressed envelope if it's too far to drive and pick up).

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

That policy was just overturned by Congress.

I liked the bit from Saturday Night Live last week that had Nancy Pelosi dreaming of the 2011 headline: "Military to Adopt All Gay Policy"

[bainsey]

Originally Posted by kgeorge0263

I can see your perspective of running the kid, but they were down 10 and didn't want to create more pandemonium.

Different sport (soccer), but a friend of mine issued a red card this year to a kid for basically being calling him the same thing. This is a no-brainer, IMO.