Technical Fouls

[Welpe]

Well I whacked my first head coach last night during my freshman game.

The visiting team head coach had been working us throughout the first quarter and was starting to accumulate the ABS meter. He cooled for a while in the second quarter until I called a shooting foul on one of his players. During the first free throw, a visiting team player standing behind the shooter yells "I've got shooter!" just as the shooter is winding up for her shot which is missed. Based upon her reaction, I judge it to be disconcerting and call the violation.

He goes off declaring that his team is just communicating. I told him "They can communicate coach as long as it doesn't disconcert the shooter." Just as the shooter is taking her substitute throw, he growls "YOU need to read the rule book." I wait a beat for the shot to finish and then whack him.

He knew right away and when I told him he needed to sit, he just responded "Yeah I know."

My partner remarked before the fourth quarter "You know his girls are playing better since you T'd him up."

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by Welpe

I knew I spoke too soon...

Tonight's freshman game fell apart in the 4th after the visitors started pulling away and the home team decided they didn't want to play the game anymore.

I personally called two intentional fouls and a technical on home team players. Not to mention the flagrant T I called on a visiting team player near the end of the game after he stormed off the court screaming F bombs at the top of his lungs in protest of a call he didn't like.

Nearly stuck the home head coach too but he backed off the ledge of insanity.

Is that near the Cliffs of Insanity?

[26 Year Gap]

I think I have issued 6 or 7. 1 was an admin for a wrong number. Another was a guy jumping up and grabbing the rim when nobody was around him and another player had already shot and scored. The others were player unsporting fouls for language and one ball slam in my direction. And, of course, the ABS T on a coach early in the season.

[constable]

Aren't technical fouls suppose to be like any other foul? If that's the case do you count how many holds or blocks you've called already this year?

I've called a few. I've passed on a few. I was doing one game where one kid alone got three himself.

I don't really keep track.

[Jeremy Hohn]

....or does it count as 2? Got a Double T on some hotheads in a big school HS game for "squaring off" in each other's face.

....no coaches...yet...but it's coming now that conference has started. The same coaches that seemed cordial in NOV/DEC are turning into sarcastic jerks now that it counts a bit more..

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Jeremy Hohn

The same coaches that seemed cordial in NOV/DEC are turning into sarcastic jerks now that it counts a bit more.

Not quite yet here in The Land of Steady Habits. In order to make the state tournament, teams have to win at least 40% of their games, which for most teams is eight of twenty games. In a few more weeks coaches will be eying that eighth win, and as that win gets more difficult to achieve, and as the season starts to wind down in mid February, that's when we start having lots of "tea" parties.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by constable

Aren't technical fouls suppose to be like any other foul? If that's the case do you count how many holds or blocks you've called already this year?

Obviously that is not true, because when they are given everyone focuses on them. You should call them like any other foul with little emotion, but we all know the players, coaches and fans do not look at them like any other. Like I said before I had to write up a school for their actions that were inappropriate earlier this year. What do you think they talked about in their response? Yes the Ts that were given to them, not the block-charge call that went against them in that game.

Originally Posted by constable

I've called a few. I've passed on a few. I was doing one game where one kid alone got three himself.

I don't really keep track.

Doesn't that mean you are keeping track?

Peace

[icallfouls]

the count went up one last week. head coach dropped an f-bomb, no brainer

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by icallfouls

the count went up one last week. head coach dropped an f-bomb, no brainer

But wasn't that after you called 'over-the-back' on his 5'2" post player?

[TwoDot]

3 through 20 games. 2 unsporting coaches, 1 wrong number in book.
One of the coaches was offering his glasses to me - didn't need that, the other was about 10 feet on the floor complaining about a call he could see better from the other end of the court.

[CoachCER]

For the first time in 20 years of coaching, my team received T's for:
1.) 6 players on the court. 6th grade boys. I subbed a kid out, but he had wondered off to get a drink instead of staying in the team huddle, and the got himself on to the court without me or anyone else noticing. The game was playing and I kept thinking something didn't look right. *sigh* We then had a chat after the game about not going off to do your wown thing while the coach is talking.

2.) Player's number not in the book. We had to replace our 8th grade boys uniforms over Christmas due to shoddy workmanship, and apparently one of the boys requested a new number but no one bothered to relay that to me or the person who does our roster. *sigh*

[icallfouls]

Originally Posted by TwoDot

3 through 20 games. 2 unsporting coaches, 1 wrong number in book.
One of the coaches was offering his glasses to me - didn't need that, the other was about 10 feet on the floor complaining about a call he could see better from the other end of the court.

Me: Coach your glasses are dirty, no wonder you aren't seeing the same game I am

[Adam]

One more tonight. As I'm coming across to tableside trail to administer a throw in, the players are a little chatty. Before I can step in to address it, V1 pops off to someone on H, "you need to shut your a$$ up."

[Adam]

And one more tonight. AC. MS girls.

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by rockyroad

1. Player T for yelling "Bullsh!t" after my partner calls a foul on him...

As we were leaving the locker room after the game, the Coach stops us and tries to argue with us that his player never swore..."He's a good Mormon kid, and he's in there crying right now because you said he swore."

Just said "Ok, thanks Coach" and kept walking.

Not everyone has the same definition of what a swear word is.

FWIW, I think you made the correct call.