[Raymond]

Originally Posted by SC Official

The only line I "frown upon" per se is the speaking captain nonsense. Because 95% of us forget who s/he is (along with all the other captains) five seconds after the meeting ends. And I only know of a couple officials whose personal philosophy is to only speak with the speaking captain (not surprisingly, those officials aren't very well-liked and coincidentally aren't very good).

I don't "frown upon" the other lines, but I think they're stupid.

I've actually been complimented before by coaches on how short and to-the-point my pregame is.

In the Captains' meeting, I tell everyone there to show us their jersey number. I have no problem with the "white talk to white...." line. If my pre-game meeting takes 20 seconds, 15 of those seconds are dedicated to the "we aren't allowing any nonsense" theme.