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Originally posted by BBallCoach
And we are human beings, we will and can get you.
Seeing that I always seem to take things out of context according to the braintrust of this fine board, I was wondering how I should interpret this quote from the wonderful JRUT. I look forward to seeing how fasts all the officials ban together to insult me and defend their good old officiating buddy JRut. This should be interesting.
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Rut has already answered well for himself, but I felt the need to add something here. There is a very simple formula that should be used when attempting to ascertain what Rut means when he writes.
"At face value." Nothing more, nothing less. By a very strange coincidence, that same formula generally works with all of our posts.
Rut simply meant that if a coach acts like an a$$, he makes himself a target. Rut's police analogy is perfect here. Focus on the "human beings" aspect of it, and you'll realize what he meant.
Good grief, I'll spell it out for you one more time. Officiating is 90% judgement (Did that contact create an advantage? Did that foot come up? Did he let go before he stepped out of bounds?). We're human, and our judgment can be affected by mouthy coaches. If a coach gets to be too much of a thorn in my side, my fuse gets shorter because the temptation is there to whistle him for any small offense I can find. We'd like to think officials would be above this, but we're human.