[JRutledge]

I have noticed that they lower the level, the more of these types of questions are asked. When you work varsity and college ball, they coaches often know why they got T'd up and how to solve that problem the next time. When we are talking about games at the middle school level, all kinds of stuff takes place there. Basically what we have are inexperienced officials dealing with just as inexperienced coaches. This is why these games can be very hard to officiate. Even when a veteran comes down and works those games and draws a clear line in the sand, you get these coaches that get more upset, because all the crap they pulled with officials that do not know any better, does not work with a veteran that works higher levels. The official could have been a veteran that did not care about the outcome of the game and wanted to send a message. All I know is that the official was by rule justified in his actions. Next time this coach might want to watch the actions of his assistants.

Peace