[mplagrow]

I am an AD in a grade school, I ref, and occasionally I help coach. I make no effort to effect the way a ref handles the game. It's not why I'm there as a coach. I have however, had times where I've had questions on what was called. For example, I had a player who picked up three fouls in the first quarter. Two looked like clean blocks. I politely talked to the ref at half time. I asked him if he could explain to me what he was seeing on the blocks so that I could tell my player what to do differently. He explained that there was contact on the follow through (we couldn't see from our angle). He appreciated that I wasn't questioning his judgment but my vantage point, and he explained his call. Notice I wasn't asking him to change the way he reffed either.