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My mentor does that...addresses coaches by their first name, and claims he has great success with it. Of course, he's been reffing like 15 years, and knows most of the coaches. His theory is that it is one professional talking to another. He says if he was in an office with the coach, he wouldn't say "hey coach"...he'd call him "Jim" or "Bob"....and he says he makes it a point early on in the game to address each coach at least once, so there's no "old buddy" thing going on.
Me?...I'm not comfortable with it. I'll stick with "Coach" and "Hey Ref" for the time being.
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