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My "latitude" goes down as the level of play goes up.
Lower level games when the coaches are actually "coaching" their players I can live with as long as the players are in the team box.
Some coaches will actually get out to the numbers then I walk them back with a warning. If they are chirping at me about calls and non-calls, the leeway decreases drastically.
My best story was missing an OOB call when working a V game. I warned the coaches multiple times about being on the field. 3 coaches were stepping onto the field about a half yard or so and I would have to go around them.
Finally a long pass to my SL and all I saw was A and B running full stride, side by side, ball was in the air and my BJ was heading that way at full bore when the three B coaches all stepped out onto the field together to "see the play".
As A caught the ball I lost sight of him because of the B coaches being on the field "looking", who then all started screaming in unison, "HE STEPPED OUT!!! HE STEPPED OUT!!!!" waving their clipboards for effect.
A then runs in for a TD and I started taking some serious heat from them when I said, "If it happened coach I didn't see it. All three of you were on the field blocking my view. I've asked you to stay in the team box, sorry guys. I'm not calling what I don't see."
Rest of the game went fine.
WM
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