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Im figuring that since the rest of us NF dudes don't have killer bees, fire ants, blazing sun, hurricanes and tornadoes to deal with, we must be lacking the leather tough hide that would allow us to let Coaches to go sticking rule books into our faces. But what the hell are we doing out there in the first place. Maybe we should give both coaches rulebooks and let them hash it out among themselves and just stay home? I don't bring my rulebook with me when working games. Im supposed to know my job. If a coach has one and hes pulling it out to show me where I'm wrong then hes trying to show me up. Hes supposed to do his job. Im supposed to do mine. He studies strategy I study the rules.
If a coach wants to talk about a ruling on the field, he can call a time out. If he's right. He won't get charged for the TO. If hes wrong. And has no TO left. It costs him 5 yards. If he wants to talk about a ruling after the game, and isnt being an *** about it, fine. I might get my book or look at his and we can talk. But in reality I don't see this happening very often. After the game I try to leave as unconsciously as I can keep my head low making no eye contact if at all possible. Bottom line with me is doing what my association tells and this is the policy of both my FB and BB assocations I. Every senior official Ive talked about this with says flag him. In baseball (which I also work) this is an auto eject.
BTW ... I might be sounding a little more hard a$$ here then I really am . Ive had three occasions when Ive had books pulled out on me. Two in youth FB and once during an HS baseball game. I was able to convince all coaches to put their books away before panelizing any of them. The last one was during a Pop Warner game two weeks ago. I told the coach, who had come all the way to the hash to show me his book, Coach you can stick that book where the....auuuu ...away before you get in trouble LOL. He did and we mover on.
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