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Partner wears out whistle
Boys 8th grade spring league yesterday. I had three games with a young man in his mid-20s. I've worked with both him and his dad many times before. First two games, no real problems. Third game - totally different. About three minutes into the game, he whacks the green HC. There's a timeout and I ask him what happened. He said the guy was ranting about us "giving the other team too much leeway" and that they didn't need any help because they were an "8th grade all-star team" and his kids were all 7th graders. My partner gave him the stop sign when the ranting began but he kept it up so he whacked him.
Apparently, that didn't do the trick because before the half was over, he whacked the guy again (he gone), whacked the AC once, then ejected two parents. In the second half, he whacked three of their players (one was flagrant with an ejection for dropping the F bomb) and then got the AC again with about three minutes left in the game (he gone, too). We had to get a parent out of the stands to "coach" the team at that point. The final score was 72-15. I bet you can guess who won. Oh yeah - one of the league reps was there and saw the whole thing and told him after the game that he did a great job.
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But not even close to my record.
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Well of course not! Sheesh!
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A question if I might...if your Partner is having to throw out all these T's, what exactly were you doing???
If I am working a game where multiple T's have to be issued, no way am I going to sit back and let one person be the one to issue all of them. |
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Agreed...and in the OP there were 7 T's issued and two parents ejected. All by ONE of the two officials. So either one of the officials was hiding and not wanting to be involved, or one of the officials was being way too sensitive to what was going on and being said. That's really the only two things I can picture here. And both are troubling to me.
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You better believe I wouldn't be involved in a game where seven technical fouls were handed out, and I didn't get at least one or two. Heck when I first started officiating, my motto was T first, ask later.
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I could maybe - MAYBE - see that with the T's on the Coach and the AC. But not with the player T's and the parents being ejected. That had to be heard...
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True, and after a couple of them, I'd get together as a crew (2 or 3) and make a concerted effort to have another official get the next one if he heard it. Not that I'd shy away from it as the calling official if I was the only one to hear the next offense, but still....
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