What does Nate Oats think about getting technical fouls
What does Nate Oats think about getting technical fouls
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00:00 Hey, Nate, I want to get back to working the officials.
00:05 You know, is that a part of the game that you enjoy, walking that fine line between
00:09 getting your point across and getting a technical foul?
00:12 And do you have a favorite technical foul story?
00:16 I mean, listen, I, all the way back to my high school days, I think I've been a little,
00:23 probably more than a little, probably a lot more intense, you know, and it just kind of
00:31 the intensity of the game gets directed different areas and officials tend to make some calls
00:37 you don't agree with.
00:39 Sometimes I, I'm not sure that I enjoy it, but I, I'm going to, if you know me, I'm going
00:47 to let you know, like I don't, you know, sometimes I don't have a filter, so I'm going to let
00:50 you know when I disagree with a call.
00:52 I think I sometimes I need to work on picking my points.
00:56 I think sometimes it goes a lot better when you're not making any point on every call
00:59 you disagree with.
01:01 I, I, you know, I maybe didn't work for the, I was pretty fiery as a high school coach
01:07 and then I went to work my two years as an assistant division one for, for coach Hurley,
01:12 who doesn't necessarily have the, you know, he gets a few technicals himself.
01:17 Yeah, I talked to him a couple of weeks ago.
01:21 He's you know, I think he had a few technicals that first year.
01:27 I tried to talk to him about maybe getting a few less technicals and kind of like calling
01:33 the kettle black.
01:34 I think at this point it looks like it's somebody, I told somebody that now it sounded a little
01:38 absurd, but I, I don't know if there's, I mean, the one where Terry tossed me wasn't
01:45 particularly great at the issue with that one was his boss was in the crowd and I looked
01:51 at his boss a couple of times that doesn't go over very well.
01:54 So now if there's a director of officials in the crowd, I don't usually try to reference
01:58 the, we did have the national director of officials, same front row in the Purdue game.
02:06 There's a few calls that didn't necessarily go our way that game.
02:10 He made it really easy.
02:11 He was like sitting right there.
02:12 I'd, you know, I, yeah, I gotta be better with not a coach to get, I tell myself every
02:20 time I'm walking out to the floor from locker room, just coach your team, just coach your
02:23 team.
02:24 I know Danny Hurley, I think had it written on his wrist at one point.
02:27 Like it's, there's a little bit of that with me too.
02:29 Like, like the more time and attention I spend on the refs, the less I'm spending on my team
02:34 and not my job is to actually coach my team.
02:37 But there is a point you do need to make.
02:39 I think sometimes when, particularly if the same calls not being called over and over
02:44 again and it's hurting your team, I think you got to make point a few times.
02:49 So I'm not going to say all of my technicals were productive ones because I didn't necessarily
02:55 want them all, but 17 and four, right.
03:00 You know, so some of them got, some of them got the point across and we, or fired the
03:03 team up or whatever happened.
03:07 And we won 17 of those 21 games I got teased in.
03:09 So to say I enjoy arguing with another adult male, no, I don't enjoy arguing with other
03:19 guys that I, cause I respect most of the referees, but sometimes you got to make point.
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