I don't see any need to start a new thread for this, so I'm posting it here. I'd like to preface this story by saying that I have been an official in two different sports (three if you count pro wrestling) and I will side with the officials over 95% of the time barring any access to replay. I saw the dumbest ejection of my life on Tuesday at a high school basketball game. The coach had already been made to sit by the officials (technical foul for mouthing off, which wasn't his first of the year, and as somebody who works closely with this coach, I doubt it'll be his last) in a previous quarter, was ejected for "staring down" a ref. The most positive light I can put this in from the ref's perspective is that he was intimidated, not only by a man who was sitting down and not saying anything, but by a man that specifically that ref, had made to sit down. This is the only time I have ever seen an ejection get protested and taken off the coach's record. Forget that it happened less than a week later, I've never seen an ejection get taken off of a coach's record before due to protest.
PS: The assistant coach did not travel to that away game. I keep the scorebook/stats for that team, so I was technically next in line to take the coach's position as the only other adult who travels with the team officially, but fortunately, the girls' team's coach was still there to take his place and she knows basketball better than I do.
