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Originally Posted by JRutledge
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...
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Several years ago there was a situation where the officials were in a room adjacent to the home locker room. During the halftime intermission, the officials could here every single word that the home coach was yelling at his players. The referee (a high school teacher) heard, in his opinion, inappropriate language that should not be used by adults in the presence of teenage boys, and took it upon himself to contact the athletic director the next morning, outside of normal line of communication that always includes our assigner as a "go-between" (other than to confirm games, officials are not supposed to directly contact athletic directors).
Needless to say, everything (referee, coach, assigner, athletic director) hit the fan. Worst of all, our officials took sides, some supporting the referee, some not supporting the referee.
