Please Mr. Gibson don't lecture me about enforcing rules and not. To be perfectly honest I ejected another person this weekend because of poor behavior, as much as I didn't want to, I did. What I said with my earlier posts in regards to kids is, it shouldn't be the officials job to make kids behave in an appropriate way. Far too many times an official ends up having to take action on something that has already occured, for example throwing head gear and such. At that point the behavior has already been displayed, the ejection comes retroactively. As I said before I don't feel like this has any sort of positive effect on the person being ejected, at best in most situations it may open their eyes and cause them to be a little more cautious about the way they act. But most of the time they go right back to the same stuff the very next weekend.

Mr. Gibson, as a coach, you and all coaches alike have the most influence on the kids out there, you are the ones working with them in practice every week, you are the ones the kids look up to as peers. It SHOULD be you as the one controling what these kids are doing, it shoudl not fall back on the referees to do your dirty work. Your quote "Realisticly the official should have done it, but because he won't step up, I do it" makes me feel like you expect the officials to make YOUR kids conform to sportmanlike ways because you don't feel like you have to. That is completely backwards thinking. Officials are on the mat to judge contest and if need be punish those who break the rules. My point in this whole thing has been, there would be alot less rule breaking and thus need for punishment enforcement, if Coaches/Parents who are the first people these kids deal with, would start putting their foot forward first and make the kids realize the behavior is unacceptable.

I saw many times this weekend a kid slapping the mat and throwing a fit, and maybe twice all day long did a coach say anything to them about it. And you would like me to just throw kids out left and right for this? I'm sorry to say but that is not my job. I would rather not throw around blame for things like this, but I will say this, if a kid/coach steps out of a line that I have determined for myself to be unacceptable you can bet that I will take care of it, as I did this weekend, and as I will continue to do in the future. However I will not be a babysitter, and I'm not going to be the bad guy who throws out punishments because the people who should be quashing this behavior before it even happens don't want to.