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Old Tue Jan 10, 2012, 10:05am
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In an 8th grade game the other night I call 4-5 fouls on the home team and none on the visitors. HC is all over me for that and wants to know why I'm doing that. Before I can even respond a fan behind the bench says "maybe our boys should stop fouling them, coach"

Later in the game coach is yelling again for a whistle, I tell him knock it off or he'll get the whistle, same fan, "(coach) will you just shut up and try and win the game!"

Made that game easier, coach kind of gave up after that.

Same coach ran the table on the second game, he apologized said he got a bit excited because he won the other night and wanted to win again that night but his team apparently isn't that good.

Good thing he wasn't coaching the 7th grade team, they were down 13-1 at the end of the 1st quarter and lost by 42.
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Old Tue Jan 10, 2012, 11:36am
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In an 8th grade game the other night I call 4-5 fouls on the home team and none on the visitors. HC is all over me for that and wants to know why I'm doing that. Before I can even respond a fan behind the bench says "maybe our boys should stop fouling them, coach"

Later in the game coach is yelling again for a whistle, I tell him knock it off or he'll get the whistle, same fan, "(coach) will you just shut up and try and win the game!"

Made that game easier, coach kind of gave up after that.

Same coach ran the table on the second game, he apologized said he got a bit excited because he won the other night and wanted to win again that night but his team apparently isn't that good.

Good thing he wasn't coaching the 7th grade team, they were down 13-1 at the end of the 1st quarter and lost by 42.

How would you have responded to the coach had you had the opportunity?
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Old Tue Jan 10, 2012, 12:03pm
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In an 8th grade game the other night I call 4-5 fouls on the home team and none on the visitors. HC is all over me for that and wants to know why I'm doing that. Before I can even respond a fan behind the bench says "maybe our boys should stop fouling them, coach"

Later in the game coach is yelling again for a whistle, I tell him knock it off or he'll get the whistle, same fan, "(coach) will you just shut up and try and win the game!"

Made that game easier, coach kind of gave up after that.

Same coach ran the table on the second game, he apologized said he got a bit excited because he won the other night and wanted to win again that night but his team apparently isn't that good.

Good thing he wasn't coaching the 7th grade team, they were down 13-1 at the end of the 1st quarter and lost by 42.
So then they improved after the 1st quarter.
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Old Tue Jan 10, 2012, 12:13pm
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How would you have responded to the coach had you had the opportunity?
Ooh ooh! I know!
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Old Tue Jan 10, 2012, 12:18pm
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... Before I can even respond a fan behind the bench says "maybe our boys should stop fouling them, coach"

Later in the game coach is yelling again for a whistle, I tell him knock it off or he'll get the whistle, same fan, "(coach) will you just shut up and try and win the game!"
I've been wondering what JR has been doing with himself lately...

Jurrasic had to be the FAN!
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Old Tue Jan 10, 2012, 01:00pm
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How would you have responded to the coach had you had the opportunity?
Since I had already told him to knock it off once, my response would have been

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Technical foul , white, head coach

And then go home and write the report.

It's my first year doing basketball, my 20th year officiating overall so I'm not unfamiliar with being worked and fixing other's behavior.
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Old Tue Jan 10, 2012, 01:03pm
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So then they improved after the 1st quarter.
Yeah, I guess.
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Old Tue Jan 10, 2012, 01:28pm
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Since I had already told him to knock it off once, my response would have been

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And then go home and write the report.
You have to write a report for EVERY technical foul you call?
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Old Tue Jan 10, 2012, 01:43pm
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You have to write a report for EVERY technical foul you call?
Yes, our association requires it. Just a brief narrative about the events leading up to to the call and the resulting compliance/noncompliance.
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Old Tue Jan 10, 2012, 01:57pm
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You have to write a report for EVERY technical foul you call?
State requirement here.
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Old Tue Jan 10, 2012, 01:59pm
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I've been wondering what JR has been doing with himself lately...

Jurrasic had to be the FAN!
Me too! Where's JR these days?
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Old Tue Jan 10, 2012, 02:12pm
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You have to write a report for EVERY technical foul you call?
We have an webpage for that. You just fill in the fields (team name, player/coach name, time, location, etc.) and a brief description of the reason.

Our soccer board also has one for red/yellow cards, and as a bonus, someone prints out a spreadsheet at season's end of all the cards we issued, including the reasons. (It doesn't list who issued them.) It makes for a fun conversation piece!
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Where's JR these days?
Sabbatical.
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Later in the game coach is yelling again for a whistle, I tell him knock it off or he'll get the whistle, same fan, "(coach) will you just shut up and try and win the game!"
Do you pay for your wife to get into the game, or does she buy her own ticket?
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Old Wed Jan 11, 2012, 08:35am
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Do you pay for your wife to get into the game, or does she buy her own ticket?
Not her in this instance. Would she do that? Absolutely. This person was not known to me.
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