Why are we reluctant to call Ts?

[LarryS]

Originally posted by Ref Daddy

I too would evaluate if at the point in the contest your partner needed the "ultimate" infraction (T) to correct the coach's behavior. Maybe so, maybe not. It's his call.

While I MAY evaluate the situation, this coach deserved the T. I have called a T on a coach with less than two minutes in the game and his team up by 35. Two reasons behind the call...the call needed to be made and I had both teams on my schedule later in the season. The coach now knows that I will work with him and answer questions, but there is a line he cannot cross.

Also, why do you, and many others, consider a technical the "ultimate infraction"? I have never given anyone a technical...everyone I have called has been earned by the player or coach. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and sounds like a duck...QUACK...I mean WHACK.