Should I Have Run Him?

YooperRef · #1 (**permalink**) Tue Feb 01, 2011, 02:49pm

Thanks for all the input everyone. I'm still kicking the situation around in my head.

I started the play on the opposite side of the lane from V's bench. The inbounder ran towards the bench when she committed the violation and I took a 3 or 4 steps in her direction when I made the call. I was about in the middle of the lane, maybe 25 ft away from the end of the V's bench.

VaTerp · #2 (**permalink**) Tue Feb 01, 2011, 03:04pm

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Originally Posted by YooperRef

Thanks for all the input everyone. I'm still kicking the situation around in my head.

I started the play on the opposite side of the lane from V's bench. The inbounder ran towards the bench when she committed the violation and I took a 3 or 4 steps in her direction when I made the call. I was about in the middle of the lane, maybe 25 ft away from the end of the V's bench.

In that case, EASILY a flagrant T. No way a coach gets 25 ft onto the court and touches me, in ANY way. See ya!

And again, absolutely NO Way you should have given the coach ANY explanation at all when he is this clearly out of line.

Like I said before, I know it's much easier in hindsight but you, and any official, really cant tolerate this kind of behavior. I'm not sure how experienced you are, but I know it took me a while to truly feel comfortble with issuing Ts and knowing how to respond to coaches who pull BS like this. You did stick him but I think a flagrant T is what was needed here. But we live and learn. Thanks for sharing this.

Rich · #3 (**permalink**) Tue Feb 01, 2011, 03:06pm

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Originally Posted by VaTerp

In that case, EASILY a flagrant T. No way a coach gets 25 ft onto the court and touches me, in ANY way. See ya!

And again, absolutely NO Way you should have given the coach ANY explanation at all when he is this clearly out of line.

Like I said before, I know it's much easier in hindsight but you, and any official, really cant tolerate this kind of behavior. I'm not sure how experienced you are, but I know it took me a while to truly feel comfortble with issuing Ts and knowing how to respond to coaches who pull BS like this. You did stick him but I think a flagrant T is what was needed here. But we live and learn. Thanks for sharing this.

Yup. And after I assess the flagrant T, I'm not explaining anything -- that coach no longer exists.

jdw3018 · #4 (**permalink**) Tue Feb 01, 2011, 03:09pm

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Originally Posted by YooperRef

Thanks for all the input everyone. I'm still kicking the situation around in my head.

I started the play on the opposite side of the lane from V's bench. The inbounder ran towards the bench when she committed the violation and I took a 3 or 4 steps in her direction when I made the call. I was about in the middle of the lane, maybe 25 ft away from the end of the V's bench.

So, the coach was all the way out to the lane on the endline?

Hmmm...that's a long way to be onto the court and not get tossed - especially considering he grabbed you. I imagined you were near his sideline.

tref · #5 (**permalink**) Tue Feb 01, 2011, 03:20pm

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Originally Posted by jdw3018

So, the coach was all the way out to the lane on the endline?

Hmmm...that's a long way to be onto the court and not get tossed - especially considering he grabbed you. I imagined you were near his sideline.

Yeah me too... save yourself some grief & provide no more details, YooperRef!

YooperRef · #6 (**permalink**) Tue Feb 01, 2011, 03:30pm

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Originally Posted by tref

Yeah me too... save yourself some grief & provide no more details, YooperRef!

No grief involved. As for the extra details, I was replying to a question from VaTerp as to my location on the floor.

It was something I hadn't had happen before so I thought I'd run it by everyone. I just wanted some other points of view.

I should have given him 2 T's. One for coming on the floor and one for the touch/response. Would have been some extra paperwork

but live and learn I guess.