[BillyMac]

This brought to mind two other instances of player versus coach conduct.

One I dealt with totally on my own. Head coach spoke to female high school player as she dribbled by him, "Get your fuc*ing head in the game". Only the three of us heard this. I chose to ignore at the time. My teacher, coach, dad, official brain "kicked in" and I decided to tell the athletic director (a friend of mine) after the game ended as I was leaving the school. He appreciated my input. I ended it there, not reporting anything to my assigner. I felt that what I did sufficed and I felt satisfied that I didn't "completely" ignore it.

Second one involved a local colleague and friend. His "day job" was as a physical education teacher, so he understood the role of a coach as a "teacher". He was an excellent official, well respected by all. He had high moral values, as was always asked to give the blessing before our annual year ending banquet.

During a boys varsity halftime intermission, he and his partner were in the coach's office with a wall of windows separating the officials and home team's halftime meeting in the attached locker room. The coach used a lot of "strong" swearing in his halftime speech.

The next morning my friend decided to unilaterally contact the school principal and report what happened. He did not involve ("skipping over") our assigner, nor the athletic director.

The specifics of this situation never officially made it to an open board meeting, only to the executive committee level, but we all knew what happened "through the grapevine".

At the next open board meeting our assigner told us that once we leave the site that any communication between an official and the school (coach, athletic director, principal) must go through him (our assigner) and that we were not to contact the school directly.