Best Game of my Season

[Toren]

perhaps the best game I've ever officiated.

Boys JV Game. Two Rival Schools, game is tight the whole way, largest lead either way was about 5. The game wasn't overly athletic but it was extremely competitive.

34 seconds left in the game and the teams are tied. I'm the L and the ball goes OOB on my line but farthest corner away. I can see who hits it out, but head coach for A is screaming for a pushing foul. His player had caused the ball OOB. I look at my partner ask if he was okay with my OOB call and he is.

I tell the coach his player hit it out and neither I nor my partner have a pushing foul, I'm doing this as I'm holding up the "stop sign". He gives me the old wave off maneuver and continues with a few choice words. I've had enough. Coach has earned his T.

We administer the T and the Head Varsity Coach, who is sitting at the end of the bench starts to talk about how I just blew the game. The head Varsity coach continues by yelling that I graduated from Team B and that I was bias. He was doing this in a manner that was inciting the crowd.

I asked for game management and had him removed from the premises. I didn't charge a technical even though he was sitting on the end of the bench and then stood up and was walking behind the benches. As he's leaving, he tells me, "I'll wait outside for you."

Team A does battle back and gets a couple of turnovers. With about 5 seconds and the clock running, Team A scores and just cause they're JV I guess, Team B throws an inbound pass that hits the back of the backboard. I blow my whistle with .9 seconds left. Team A calls a timeout.

I'm the L, they come out with a nice little play and get a three point look from the near corner. I signal the three, ball is clearly away, buzzer goes off, crowd goes silent. Swish. Eruption. Players going banana's, I start watching players to make sure nobody gets stupid on me (I was pretty proud of myself for actually keeping my eyes on the players here).

We head to OT.

My partner in the OT has a player control foul on a ball handler about the 28 foot line. The coach for team B goes ape nuts, he stands up, throws his hands and my partner gives him his second T. So now he's ejected. He tries to have a huddle with his players and my partner is trying to break it up. I tell my partner, to go administer and I will take care of it.

Coach starts to exit the facility, and the rest of the game finishes without too much incident. In the game I probably had 8 charge calls, two player control calls, 2 team control fouls. The teams didn't or couldn't make the adjustment to stop running the defenders over.

Sorry for the long story, but it's a Sunday, so I thought I would give anyone that is willing to read all that a good story. I can't wait for the next competitive match up. And for anyone wondering, I actually graduated from the other school that is the rival of both of these schools. Not that this information matters at all, but coach didn't even have his facts right. And he was not waiting outside after the game.

[tomegun]

Are you saying this is the best game you ever had based on how the teams played - how close/competitive the game was - or based on how you called the game? As written, you allowed someone who was bench personnel to get away with unsporting conduct. In your game it doesn't matter who he is the head coach for, his conduct was worthy of a T (IMO)...AND he threatened you on the way out which should have been addressed (again, IMO).

I measure a well-officiated game as a game where the crew has a very high percentage of calls correct. Having said that, could two technical free throws have changed the outcome of the game?

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Toren

The Head Varsity Coach, who is sitting at the end of the bench starts to talk about how I just blew the game. The head Varsity coach continues by yelling that I graduated from Team B and that I was bias. He was doing this in a manner that was inciting the crowd. I asked for game management and had him removed from the premises. I didn't charge a technical even though he was sitting on the end of the bench and then stood up and was walking behind the benches. As he's leaving, he tells me, "I'll wait outside for you."

I hate to rain on your parade, but, "blew the game", and "was bias", would have immediately earned him, at least, a technical foul, and maybe a flagrant technical foul. The, "I'll wait outside for you", would have either earned him a second technical, and an ejection, or it would have been the, "cherry on top", of the first flagrant technical.

Here in Connecticut, he would have not been allowed to coach, on any level, until he sat out the next junior varsity game. The last time a junior varsity official did this, he got a standing ovation at out next local board meeting.

[deecee]

I agree. The head coach was on the bench and he should have been T'd up. I did this at in a summer game for a very good varsity program. the HC had one of his assitants be the HC for the day and he just sat at the end of the bench. He said some things that got a T.

He was whining that he's not even part of the game. I said your bench your problem and he's on your bench. He moved to the stands.

The threat after on his way out would have earned him a Flagrant T. Especially since he was on the bench you can get away with this. I would also tell the varsity officials of this and contact the local league administrators as I think the coach would be barred from coaching his game as well.

[Toren]

I hear you guys and it did cross my mind. In our state we do file a report and his actions are going on the report. He may serve a 1 game penalty even though I did not official eject him, I'll let the state decide his penalty.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Toren

I hear you guys and it did cross my mind. In our state we do file a report and his actions are going on the report. He may serve a 1 game penalty even though I did not official eject him, I'll let the state decide his penalty.

I'd be curious to see what, if anything, CHSAA does. He'd have got one from me rather than the toss, and his parting shot would have been another.

[kwatson]

Toren, glad you had a good game! Im going through withdraws here, between funerals and snow I havent had a game since last week of December.