Unsportsmanlike Conduct

[trocared]

a few years back during a frosh. game, this kid had a great punt return until he started high-stepping and pointing the ball at defenders...USC. To add, our state association has an automatic ejection for taunting, so he got ran to boot.
Our white hat (who knew the kid, his parents, grandparents, etc...) did not see my flag and decided to grab the kid by his shoulder pads and started yelling at him. I ran up to him, told him to let the kid go, that I had flagged his actions already. White hat asked what did I flag him for...taunting...that's an automatic ejection, he says....so be it, i replied.
That he was more worried what this kid's dad would say than doing the right thing in the first place really drove a wedge in our officiating relationship for a couple of years.
We have since kissed and made up and have had some success in post season assigments, although we do not openly talk about the "incident".
cheers,
tro