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Originally posted by cmathews
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Originally posted by zebraman
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Originally posted by Nevadaref
How many groups/associations that you work for allow schools/coaches to delete (not allow them to work their games) officials?
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Our association has never allowed that. I can only recall a couple of times that a coach made that request to our board and it was denied immediately. We've had a coach/school come to us with concerns about something an official did and we've dealt with those when they have had some validity. If we have an official who is not worthy of working any school, we'd deal with that but we'd never allow an individual school to prevent a certain official from going there. The tail doesn't wag the dog.
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Personally I don't understand the big deal. There are times that certain coaches and certain officials have a difference of opinion....why rub salt in the wound...if the coach wants to scratch some officials and there are plenty of officials to work, then why push the issue. I know that it could get out of hand but usually doesn't. With that said, our association schedules the games in our area that aren't privately contracted. We get a preferred list from schools that are inclined to do so...and we try to honor them as closely as possible. There are also along with the preferred list, the not in my gym list LOL we also try to honor this list as well...but we don't let the tail wag the dog...it just makes things run smoother if you don't piss coaches, ADs or officials off by putting them together if they don't get along....
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All our area coaches know that they have no power over who we send. IMHO, it makes them more likely to be reasonable and not
go postal because they know they can't scratch any ref that they get mad at. Coaches generally don't know much about officiating... they just remember who made a tough call in the last minute against their team (regardless of whether or not it was correct) or who gave them a technical foul (regardless of whether or not it was deserved).
IMHO, our association does a pretty good job of determining which officials are capable to do any games and our assigner does a good job of sending our top officials to the top games. We don't need coach input for that and we don't want our officials
ever feel like a certain call might lead a coach to scratching them. That's just not right.
In my three years on the board, we had just one coach try to scratch a certain official. After talking to him and the official he didn't want, we found out the details of what happened. There was a little bit of fault by the coach and the official. They got together and worked it out in no time. Rather than having a pissed off coach who thinks some of our officials suck and feeling like he could scratch one, he realized that none of us are perfect and that this official was actually pretty good (and human) after all. Now they joke about it and have one of the best coach/official relationships I've seen.
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