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Originally Posted by Raymond
Being a good communicator does not mean chatting all game. And the D1 coach and D3 supervisor both said as much. The D1 coach said there's needs to be a point where an official says, in a professional manner, that enough is enough. And when that warning isn't heeded, then you popped the coach with a T.
But let's not pretend there aren't officials out there, HS and college, who don't come into games with the attitude that they are not going to have any communication with the coaches, because there are.
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1) I agree, but there are officials who think they need to explain themselves (or worse, their partners) every time they go beside the coach. Or not even explain themselves, just have a chummy conversation. And while most coaches don't expect that you will talk to them the whole game, there are some who do have just that expectation, and then when you shut down the communication because it's about to cross the line, that just makes things worse.
2) Agree again, but let's also not pretend like there aren't officials out there, HS and college, who spend the majority of the game conversing with coaches, for whatever reasons they may have. I would argue that this is just as detrimental as not communicating at all.
There aren't many, if any, absolutes in this business. Everything has a balance that each of us has to find. That's why it's an art.