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Originally Posted by SC Official
This is all well and good until you run into a coach with whom being a dick right back at him is the only way to get your point across.
What's the point of calling them to the table? You're not explaining a complicated ruling, you're giving a warning.
We get it, you don't call technical fouls and think you are the gift from the game management gods.
I'd rather work with a partner who I know will handle business than someone like you who (I can only assume based on your posting history) will let the coaches bitch and moan until someone else cleans up your mess for you.
Apparently so will calling technical fouls, something you haven't done in what, 10 years?
A-freaking-men. If I was in this business (and yes, refereeing is partially a business) to please people, I would never whack coaches, just like SD Referee (and maybe Matt S.?).
Coaches (along with ADs and other administrators and fans) are not my customers.
This is not a customer service business. Do your job, penalize unsporting behavior, and stop making every excuse in the book for not doing so.
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There is a difference in taking care of business and being a dick. The poster self described himself as such and was proud of it. To each his own.
As I said before, it sounds like you guys deal with way more problems in your areas of the world. Maybe it's better players with more on the line, thus getting the coaches more fired up. Maybe it's coaches that think they are better than they are. Maybe it's............I don't know what.
I have a style that has worked for me and I have received plenty of big games and postseason work. Apparently what I am doing is perfect for my area of the world. To T or not to T does not define your ability as a referee. I am far from a god of management, but what I do works in my area of the world. It's a style that far more accomplished officials have used as well. Maybe my first coach T is coming someday. Maybe not. I couldn't care less. SOME of you care far more about it than I do. You use it to measure the ability and greatness of an official. I couldn't care less what you think of that.
Sounds like you guys have to hand out Ts like they are candy in your areas. If that's what it takes, then so be it. That's NOT what it takes in my area of the world.