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Originally Posted by bob jenkins
How far in advance of the game was this, especially relative to the time you might usually show up for a game? If you were there 90 minutes early, for example, and you usually are in the room 30 minutes before game time, then the coach could have expected the room to be empty.
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That is true, but if he comes in your room and hears you say something, and interprets something from what you said, that is not fair to the crew.
I had a football games years ago where we drove together for a particular game in Central Illinois (before I moved to Chicago). I was with my crew and we had one person filling in that happened to be the brother of the Referee. Everyone on the crew knew each other growing up but me but I had become rather good friends with each crew member. We had an extensive pregame in the car before this big game and were able to talk about a lot of things related only to the game. The trip was about an hour and a half for most of us so we had plenty of time to discuss everything we were going to do or what was going to happen in the game.
Well when we finally got to the school, we were out of pre-game mode and were joking and having some fun with each other. The room they put us in was right next to the coach's locker office and the head coach and most of the staff were in there.
Well, the game ended in a close one with the visiting team scoring on their final drive with less than a minute to go in the game. When the game was over and we got to the locker room, we hardly talked about the game or the job we did. But we were confronted by the head coach that referenced our behavior before the game and he claimed we did not take it that seriously. And was rather critical where we had to basically tell them, "You put us in this room where you could see us interact, if you put us in a private room you would have no idea what we did or talked about." The coach was shut down rather quickly and he was still mad but this even resulted in a write-up with a Special Report by one of the crew members.
I saw this to suggest that even if the coach thought that we were put in a situation that was not fair to all parties. This is what I was thinking about when reading this OP. Anything could have been saying and the coach could hold that against the crew. We should only be in a room that no one is coming in and out of and that happens way too often at schools. Participants also try to find biases in our behavior towards a school and this only exacerbated that feeling.
Peace