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Luke Gleave |
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March 16 |
Springville |
Several times during the match this player was asked to keep his emotions in check and not make personal degrading remarks at the officiating crew. It did not matter if it was the assistant referee or the center referee calling fouls, Luke would show his complete displeasure by loudly and verbally disagreeing with the calls that were being made. Several verbal warnings were made to Luke to stop his personal public comments. My goal was to manage the player through verbal communication telling him stop rather than issuing a caution.
During the 36 minute in the second half, the assistant referee raised his flag. I talked with the assistant referee away from play, and I was instructed by the assistant referee that a Springville player needed to be cautioned for telling the assistant referee the foul he just called was a bullshit foul. As I was seeking out the player to issue the caution, Luke who was not involved with the situation, came running over to where I was showing his teammate the caution, and in a loud public voice launched into a tirade degrading the officiating team, and publicly further undermining the authority of the officiating crew.
In my opinion the issuing of the yellow card to his teammate had nothing to do with Luke. When Luke ran to the spot where the caution was being shown to his teammate,
he involved himself using targeted, personal, undermining language and he needed to be sent off. Section 8 article 2b states use of word or act to incite or degrade an opposing player, coach referee or other individual. |
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Ferrin |
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September 14 |
Spanish Fork |
During the first half of the JV game, the head coach of the VARSITY TEAM who was not coaching the JV team, was sitting next to the JV team on his golf cart in the team area loudly, and expressively critiquing the officiating. The AR nearest to the coach in the first half overheard him say in a loud public voice, “between the center ref and the other AR I need to take a pill or go get a drink”.
As the game, progressed comments continued loud enough for me to take notice in the middle of the field. In the 70th minute the coach threw his arms up in the air, and using his voice loud enough for me to hear in the middle of the field, it takes two handballs for you to make a call? I stopped play and asked Coach Ferrin to come speak with me near the touch line. I specifically asked him to come near the touchline, away from everyone so we could talk privately. I asked him to stop with the loud comments, and he immediately challenged me by saying “you are going to ask me over for me making that comment”, continuing his degrading tone towards the officiating crew. I said no, all the comments you are making. I followed up with enough of the comments coach, can you be done. He replied back in a loud voice "I am done, now you go do your job.” After that comment, I showed the red card to him, to which he replied you cannot card me as I am not the JV coach and I am not coaching this game. I said back to him, “coach you are in the team area, you are acting as part of the team, you are dismissed". Coach Ferrin turned around, gathered his items, and left the team area.
The issue with this incident was the nonstop public loud comments towards the officiating crew during the JV game. I approached the coach in a calm normal voice, asking the coach to stop the loud disparaging comments, and my request was immediately challenged with continued degrading comments towards the officiating crew.
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