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No beating here. I respect you for coming to this board and posting. It's a great place to learn and better yourself. I have never seen a perfect coach nor have I seen a perfect official. Coaches and Officials should all be striving for the same thing. We are all role models for the students and their education should be top priority. Football is a great place for building players for a better tomorrow. As you said some coaches do know the rules, but their are others who don't know anything and it shows and it paints that image onto all coaches, just the same as if one official makes a poor judement call it affects all of us officials because everyone assumes we all have poor judgement. One thing about coaches that is very upsetting is they teach the player to play until the whistle. That is very poor because the whistle don't kill the play, unless it is inadvertant. The proper way to teach them is to play until the ball is dead. Often times the runner will be tackled and in the process of getting the whistle to my mouth a kid comes in late and hits the player on the ground. That's a foul regardless of if the whistle. The coach will scream and holler, "hey the whistle wasn't blown yet." If you are one that truly does know the rules, then keep learning because there are very few coaches that do. I know this will never happen but next time you are in a game and the officials make a call, just accept their call and move on without argument. If you do that then I will assure you that they won't tell you that you should have ran the ball on 4th and 1. Best of luck and keep posting.
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