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I appreciate the opinions. The coach had started in the 2nd half getting more vocal. If his player had the ball underneath he was yelling "foul". He was calling for traveling or some infraction when his team was defending as well.
I know he was speaking to me when he stated "if the officials blow their whistles" because the entire timeout other than that point he was talking to his players. I didn't "T" him up because I didn't feel the situation warranted it. Ive only had (3) T's all year. (1) on head coach for ABS, (1) for scorebook, (1) in youth league on player that had bad attitude and fired the ball at me after a call. This is in 60+ games. I know I'm not thin skinned but I also don't want to come across as a harda$$. |
You guys are starting to make me feel like I am doing something wrong now. I have 14 on the year in 24 games with 2 ejections.
1 game: 3 T's all players, 2 of which were double techs for dead ball extracurricular activities. Other for complaining player 2nd game: same as above, which makes six 1 book 1 coach for failure to provide sub. 2 on coach discussed in another thread for poking me in the chest then tossing the ball across the court (ejection). The others just various T's all on players for p dead ball pushing, back talk etc. Many on these were while working with first year officials who don't know how to take care of business. I haven't really questioned any of these except the flagrant which is also discussed in another thread. The funny thing is, my first two years, I only had 2 techs total. Rough year. |
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I've had the same streaky-ness lately in soccer. After 10 years with maybe 2 reds total, I've had 4 reds in each of the last two seasons with each season featuring a 2-red game. I try to look back and evaluate each T given or not given once I get out of the heat of the moment and see if I'm still happy with my decision. Usually I am. @Shades, you really need to draw the line a heck of a lot sooner than the coach getting ready to assault you. |
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Others have hit on the idea that if you one set of officials let the coach walk on them, the next officials will have it that much harder. We as officials are tasked with enforcing sportsmanship and there are ways to get there but we as a whole can't allow that line to get crossed repeatedly without pointing out what is and is not acceptable. |
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Newer and younger officials take too much guff and don't know how to handle pressure situations. For anyone who struggles with this, I would recommend checking out any books or materials on Verbal Judo, it is a pretty helpful communications tool. Used correctly it can lead to some really good light bulb moments for a coach. |
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I don't think there's ever been a T I've felt bad about giving out. Maybe I just have no soul. |
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Same goes with comments like "you'll never work here again" or "I'll get you thrown out of this conference." |
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I whacked a Coach earlier this season for yelling across the court T me that he was going to send the game film to my assignor. And the assignor backed me 100%. |
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I have since been blackballed by that coach for future years at his gym... gotta love small schools! However, he can't blackball me from schools he visits on the road, and I get to see him tomorrow night! It should be fun! |
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