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I understand it is never a perfect game. But we teach the kids to do their best everytime. We know they will make mistakes and what we want them to do is learn from it. It is not too much to ask the same from the officials.
Are officials are all members in good standing with one of the associations that judge HS games. We do get many untested and lower experienced refs, but generally get at least 1 veteran official. We are suppose to get a review form from them, strangely they forgot it, the coaches and players get reviewd by the officials as well. Our playoff qualifier is first based on these reviews mainly rooted in sportmanship and then go to the records. I like this system and what its goal is. If our coaches were to abuse (verbally) or teach and promote illegal and unsafe techniques, these reviews would highlight it and could draw a league suspension after the review process on a bad review. The only consequence of the poor ref job is the following year's contract. This is disappointing. There should be some sort of review and consequence for a poor job. Not neccessarily monatary. I take pride in my job and in my coaching. I have no son in the program.
And on teaching kids about fighting through diversity, how do you think we won the game. The kids never quit or gave in. That is the best part of this particular game. It would have been easy for them to quit and say the refs robbed them, but they did not. They played to the end, to the best of their abilities, and in the end, it is all we as coaches, ask of our kids, in our program.
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