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Old Mon Nov 22, 2004, 05:22pm
Jurassic Referee Jurassic Referee is offline
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Originally posted by totalnewbie

So now my question is this: how much would you tighten up your calling of the game if you saw the losing players starting to get pissed? Would you then say something to the coaches? Is this perhaps a "preventative officiating" situation, and if so how do you handle it?

Jmo Clark, it's fine to tighten up if they start to get a l'il more physical than you like or start to yap at each other- but just make sure that you tighten up both ways. Iow, make the calls the same at both ends. That's our job- not playing judge and jury on what is really a coach's perogative in the first place. Personally, I never tell the coaches how to do their job. That just seems kinda unreasonable to me if I'm not gonna let them tell me how to do my job also.
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