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Originally posted by RoyalsCoach
I am an assistant varisty girls coach. I check the forum on a daily basis to keep up on the rules. Head coach does not have an intimate knowledge of the rules. The other night there is a designated throw in, girl shuffles her feet. Official blows whistle and gives the traveling signal.(Don't cringe!) It appeared to me she had one foot at all times over the designated spot. I tried to tell our head coach there is no traveling on a designated throw in and the call should be questioned. He looked at me like he had no idea what I was talking about. If the head coach gets the officials attention can I be a part of the conversation or do we always pay the price for his lack of knowledge?
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Coach, you pay the price for the official's lack of knowledge, NOT your head coach's lack of knowledge! Get it? What if your HC knows the rule? Do you think questioning the official's call is going to change the call?? No, it's not. While looking at the game tape with the head coach, you might say something like, "Jeesh, I'm not sure why that official called traveling there. There is no travel call on an inbounds throw-in as all our player needs to do is keep part of her body over a 3-foot spot. HC, did you know that?"
If you're brave enough...and if the official seems receptive to the nice conversation your bench has been having with him the whole game, you might ask him/her about the call when he/she comes over to get you out of a TO huddle. That is one of the FEW times I
might listen to an assistant. But it better be civil and done in a professional manner!!