LOL!!!

Peace

That article says nothing about why the player was ejected. It just gives the coach whining about what he doesn't think his player did. So there is no verification of anything here...

Even if the coach had said something along the lines of "He (the referee) told me..." it still would not be verification of anything. Using what one aggrieved party claims someone else said is not verification.

Exactly. I had to file a report this year about a dispute with some events with a school (AD and Principal) and the coach clearly misrepresented to his AD what I said to him directly in an explanation about a kid that got a T that resulted in his 5th foul. They literally tried to explain it away by saying he said "freakin" to me directly instead of the other word that starts with the same letter. Not only did the coach ask me what happened, I told him word for word what his player said so that there would not be any confusion. And that was in a report to the state, not a newspaper or media member.

I tend to not trust anything a coach says when they are trying to justify behavior of their players and sometimes themselves.

Peace

I hate how officials can jump to a conclusion that a call like this is right or wrong. There could have been a lot leading up to this incident and this pushed it over the end. Why question a fellow official? He is there for a reason.

-Josh

Eh, I'm not a fan of the "striped wall." I despise it in other professions and there's no reason not to have a discussion to try to make us better officials.

I respect that, and would not defend officials blindly across the board... but hanging these guys out by assuming this is a bad call (or the two posts that would have liked to see the T from a different official ... ) is patently unfair - we weren't there, we have extremely minimal information AND some of the information we do have comes from an extremely biased source.

As a state clinician and president of an association and board member of other groups, I do not like to look at things through a narrow point of view as well. There are a lot of good teaching points from this play and I would have asked the official several questions as to why they came to this conclusion. There answer would tell me more than what I thought I saw.

Peace

I wonder who edited the entry.

You'll find yourself rolling your eyes less often.

You gotta wonder why this player was in the game to begin with? He had gotten one technical already and the game wasn't in doubt. Especially, if as some have suggested, considering he might have had a couple of questionable actions before the actual T was issued.

So either the coach thought his player could continue to push the limits or this was an isolated incident and the referee called a quick one.

They were up 42-35 when the kid was tossed, with over 14 minutes remaining in the game.

Since when are Players, Coaches, and ADs the experts on the Rules? :eek:

MTD, Sr.

Since reporters could be counted on to get the facts straight before printing an article.