2021-22 NOMINATIONS: "Cone of Shame"

[Eric]

A friend of mine used to coach high school girls out west. He tells the story of a game where he was getting pretty heated, and an official warned him that if he said “it” (whatever “it was) again, he would t up the coach. My friend said, “Oh I will say “it” again, but I’m going to wait until you’re at the other end of the court, so you’ll have to waddle your fat ass all the way back here to do it!” My friend’s night ended early.

[1972Shocker]

https://www.espn.com/womens-college-...etball-history

"Georgia Southern beat Carver College 133-15 on Monday, the second-largest margin of victory in women's Division I history...."

Who is the shamed party in this one. Georgia Southern? Carver College? Women's Basketball? All the Above?

[molly jabali]

Who is the shamed party in this one. Georgia Southern? Carver College? Women's Basketball? All the Above?

yes on all.....

[SubGod22]

When an opponent is outclassed by that wide a margin, there are steps the winning team can take. We had a game like this my FR year where at halftime we were up 20-30. We stopped the full court press after the first and the half court at halftime. We weren't told to stop playing defense though, and no team should be. We were forbidden from anymore fast break points though and any steal had to be held up and we worked on different plays within our offense. At one point, I believe we went all Hoosiers and had to complete X amount of passes before a shot could go up. The starters were pulled completely about half-way through the 3rd quarter and the end of the bench played the entirety of the 4th. We still won by a large margin, but we could have easily put up 120 on them and won the game by 70+. We still won the game by somewhere between 40-50 and I'm not sure if we even hit 90.

Nobody felt good about that game. I believe they were a 2A school and I'm not sure how they ended up being on the schedule outside of being relatively nearby.

In college, I know you can't completely milk the clock like you can in HS due to the shot-clock, but you can do your best back off and work on other things and not run up the score like that.

[molly jabali]

That's the diplomatic way an official may agree with you without throwing a partner completely under the bus. I've worked with officials who simply were not good and/or over their heads but you're a team and have to try.

My first mentor in officiating once told us that silence can't be quoted. I took that to heart in being very careful about what you do and say with a coach. Now, if an evaluator/assigner had asked me about my views on certain officials, I'd be 100% honest. But when it comes to coaches and players you have to be careful.

So to come full circle, that was his way of saying you're right. Most likely.

I agree 100%....I found myself to be very much a fan of refs, as long as they ran, kept an even eye(NOT call them both ways) and not become the game...

[RoyalShock]

Since we are walking down memory road, i once had a pair of refs out west in the state who actually were from around the Hutch area...had them a lot ...one might have been the best ref I've ever had and we often lost so it was not because we won with him...but the other guy...clown show....totally theatrical for the home team(even at our place)....so he made a travelling call on one of our players(correct call) but proceeded to three step skip down the court with an exaggerated travelling motion....I yelled to him...."not one person here paid to see your clown show...you are not the game...." yeah, I got a T there and a few laughs from my players.....don't miss those days at all....reffing is an impossible job, but it's not Broadway....

Was one of them Ron Spitler before he started doing NCAA games?

[molly jabali]

Was one of them Ron Spitler before he started doing NCAA games?

no, but I watched him do many games in the NJCAA tourney at Hutch...no, I can't remember the one I couldn't stand...the one I like was named Kelly and was an administrator at Lyons, I think...

[Kung Wu]

I remember back when I used to ref, I'd like to really spice things up and give the fans a show at an otherwise boring, say, junior high girls basketball game (for example).

I'd give a little flourish for this call, or maybe a few skips and some jazz hands for that call. Whatever.

But one of the most fun parts of reffing is when one of the coaches took the game too serious, and said or did some things they shouldn't, and I got to throw a T. I'd blow the whistle as loud as I could, like a choo-choo train: whoo whoo WHOOOOOOOOOOOOooooo..... until I ran out of breath! Then go running to the center table where I would do at LEAST 3 revolutions holding my T signal as high as I could with my head tilted back staring up at my own T signal for all the crowd to see. It was almost, but not quite a pirouette move.

But that's not the best part!

After the glorious spin move, I'd slowwwwwly sink into the lowest most insane crouching tiger stance you have ever seen, with my left hand doing a full kung fu claw, I'd point that right hand finger right at the offending coach, trying to shoot a virtual laser straight through his eyeballs, and then slowly raise it up and waggle that finger back and forth, saying "no, no, no".

The coaches LOVED it!

[SubGod22]

I remember back when I used to ref, I'd like to really spice things up and give the fans a show at an otherwise boring, say, junior high girls basketball game (for example).

I'd give a little flourish for this call, or maybe a few skips and some jazz hands for that call. Whatever.

But one of the most fun parts of reffing is when one of the coaches took the game too serious, and said or did some things they shouldn't, and I got to throw a T. I'd blow the whistle as loud as I could, like a choo-choo train: whoo whoo WHOOOOOOOOOOOOooooo..... until I ran out of breath! Then go running to the center table where I would do at LEAST 3 revolutions holding my T signal as high as I could with my head tilted back staring up at my own T signal for all the crowd to see. It was almost, but not quite a pirouette move.

But that's not the best part!

After the glorious spin move, I'd slowwwwwly sink into the lowest most insane crouching tiger stance you have ever seen, with my left hand doing a full kung fu claw, I'd point that right hand finger right at the offending coach, trying to shoot a virtual laser straight through his eyeballs, and then slowly raise it up and waggle that finger back and forth, saying "no, no, no".

The coaches LOVED it!

I know this is bullshit but I'd so love to see it. Said ref would never work again, but at least they'd go out with something memorable.

[WstateU]

I remember back when I used to ref, I'd like to really spice things up and give the fans a show at an otherwise boring, say, junior high girls basketball game (for example).

I'd give a little flourish for this call, or maybe a few skips and some jazz hands for that call. Whatever.

But one of the most fun parts of reffing is when one of the coaches took the game too serious, and said or did some things they shouldn't, and I got to throw a T. I'd blow the whistle as loud as I could, like a choo-choo train: whoo whoo WHOOOOOOOOOOOOooooo..... until I ran out of breath! Then go running to the center table where I would do at LEAST 3 revolutions holding my T signal as high as I could with my head tilted back staring up at my own T signal for all the crowd to see. It was almost, but not quite a pirouette move.

But that's not the best part!

After the glorious spin move, I'd slowwwwwly sink into the lowest most insane crouching tiger stance you have ever seen, with my left hand doing a full kung fu claw, I'd point that right hand finger right at the offending coach, trying to shoot a virtual laser straight through his eyeballs, and then slowly raise it up and waggle that finger back and forth, saying "no, no, no".

The coaches LOVED it!

[MikeKennedyRulZ]

Ah yes, gotta love Teddie V. He's a classic.

[WuShock16]

Ah yes, gotta love Teddie V. He's a classic.

Isn’t that Ed Hightower?

[MikeKennedyRulZ]

Isn’t that Ed Hightower?

That's what I meant. Oops.

[SubGod22]

Easy mistake. TV Teddy is in the same ballpark as Ed

[molly jabali]

Easy mistake. TV Teddy is in the same ballpark as Ed

some would say, one and the same.....:)