Ok-Tim Floyd is an embarassment to the coaching profession. Anybody here work volleyball? I have a terrible example of a high school coach getting ejected-
Middle of the fifth set a coach from the visiting school goes ballistic over a line call made by a home school's jv player.Referee accepts the call and awards the point accordingly.The coach then takes a couple of aggressive steps towards the JV girl who made the call while yelling at the referees and throwing his hat on the court.He earned the yellow,red,and yellow/red cards in a span of about 90 seconds.On the way out of our gym after being ejected he proceeded to karate kick one of the double doors.
In the case of Tim Floyd's video documented ejections there was game management in place to handle it.In my case we did not have communication with our game management staff.Afterword we realized that our school's security staff did not give us a radio to summon them if they were not in the gym and something happened.During the incident it was up to those of us in the building to get him out and finish the match.The table was being run by two former lady coaches and our only other available staff was the male head coach and myself.This coach played for a local university and was 6'5 240 or so and the we were both 5'5 160 or so.I was formulating what I was going to do if I had to deal with him and I would have said "Lay one hand on me in a inappropriate manner and I have absolutely no problem calling the cops."
He eventually leaves the building at the urging of his school's parents and AD but our security staff watched him until he left the premises.This coach's AD apologized to us for his behavior and made him write a letter of apology to the JV girl and our school.He was suspended one match for his behavior in this incident.Conference USA unfortunately does not realize the impact that letting Floyd get away with his antics will have at the high school and lower levels.
Had another incident where in a girls summer league basketball championship game one of the fans was ejected for commentary on the referees.On his way out he threatened to key my AD's car so we kept him in his office for about an half hour while the crowd dispersed.When he left he summoned a police officer who did a drive around and helped us disperse the crowd.An email was sent to the AD of the school who's fan was ejected saying "You will send some sort of administrative supervision or we will not play this boys championship game." They did and the boys fans were way more tame than the girls.
Its sad how coaches and fans are allowed to behave sometimes.Tim Floyd needed to be the example of what happens to people who display bad sportsmanship.
Last edited by SCalScoreKeeper; Sat Feb 26, 2011 at 04:26pm.
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