Wed Oct 13, 2004, 04:48pm
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Originally posted by Deep
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Originally posted by MI Official
As I read through the rule book, I see that we, as officials. assume the contest 30 minutes prior to the game and give it up at the decleration of the end of the 4th quarter/OT. Do we have 'outs' as to what happens immediately after that? during handshakes between teams? we had an assistant start cussing out our HL and chase him all the way off the field, and continue hollering/cursing at all of us until we were out of ear-shot... do we have any means of recourse(other than a letter tha will probably be overlooked)?
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You have NO responsibility for what happens during handshakes, and you should already be off the field when they occur. Too many guys want to linger around, perhaps they want to be told what a good job they did. Well, most of us don't put too much stock into a coach complaining about the job we did, so why are they all of a sudden smarter when they tell us how good we did?
As far as your assistant coach, you have 3 options in Michigan, pick the ones most appropriate for how severe it was:
1) Tell your assigning authority about it.
2) A call to his AD or principal.
3) Fill out a game report and send it into the MHSAA. This option is the only one that the MHSAA would officially support, and probably the one you should use. You WILL get a response from them. They will probably not tell you what action was taken, only that the matter has been looked into and handled. Believe me, these reports do carry considerable weight with most schools.
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I'd go with all of the above. All of the above need to know. I made the mistake of writing a letter to the AD and Principal a few years ago and didn't even get a response. Not every AD and principal has the guts to talk about the behavior of their coaches with you. I should have notified the state so they'd at least have it on record. I know the guys at the state office and they would have addressed it.
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