Things Officials Should Probably Not Be Saying In A Game ...

[Travelling Man]

Add to your list:
1. Refs don't need to "remind" a coach that they have been issued a 1st warning prior to giving them a second technical foul and subsequent ejection.

2. When a coach asks "how many timeouts do I have?" We refs have no business informing them; that's the responsibility of their ass't coach or score table personnel.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Travelling Man

Add to your list:
1. Refs don't need to "remind" a coach that they have been issued a 1st warning prior to giving them a second technical foul and subsequent ejection.

2. When a coach asks "how many timeouts do I have?" We refs have no business informing them; that's the responsibility of their ass't coach or score table personnel.

To your first point. We don't have to give them a warning anyway. Reminding them of their warning is just giving them another warning, and that's just from the UN school of game management.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Travelling Man

When a coach asks "how many timeouts do I have?" We refs have no business informing them; that's the responsibility of their ass't coach or score table personnel.

"Coach, you have one timeout left"? We've debated that here on the Forum in the past. I will consider it.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

"Coach, you have one timeout left"? We've debated that here on the Forum in the past. I will consider it.

I don't offer it, but if asked I will answer.

[Rob1968]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

"Coach, you have one timeout left"? We've debated that here on the Forum in the past. I will consider it.

NFHS Rules 2-7-11 Officials' General Duties . . . Notifying the head coach when a team is granted its final allowable time-out.
Some supervisors would rather that we notify the head coach when a team has one time-out left.
"When in Rome . . ."

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Rob1968

Some supervisors would rather that we notify the head coach when a team has one time-out left.
"When in Rome . . ."

Agree. All our supervisors, assigners, commissioners, etc., live in some kind of "Rome", so we do what they expect us to do, otherwise, we won't be working, and whether, or not, we tell coaches that they have one timeout left becomes moot, because we're not working.