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Originally posted by blindzebra
Coach, your job is to coach your players, trying to gain an edge is cheating, working an official does fall under rule 10-4-1-b Attempting to influence an official's decision.
That is a T.
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Believe me, I would be happy if it were, in practice a T. I was sincere in starting this thread that I tried coaching only the bench and I got worked. I knew it, our few fans knew it, the players knew it. We can go 'round and 'round about how I can't influence calls and there are some crews where I know this is true (and I am all but silent) but by and large I don't believe it. And I don't think I'm a hothead. Sometimes it's, "please watch the grabbing underneath" and sometimes it's "you're calling us for every little touch on the perimeter and your letting them hammer us inside. you can't reward one style over another!"
I'm just trying to be honest and sincere posting here and I do think that officials who would spend time posting and reading message boards are probably of the caliber that would convince me to spend 100% of my time coaching my kids instead of 80 - 90%. But you have to admit, I've also spent more time thinking about this issue than your average coach and I do think that when I only coach my kids, I lose an edge. When there are strict limits on talking to the refs and T's are given to everyone, I will gladly shut up.