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This is boggling my mine....
I dont tell a doctor how to do surgery
I dont tell a lawyer how to try a case
I dont tell the garbage man how to load up my trash
THEREFORE, A coach should not tell me how to officiate a game.
I hope and prey there is no official in the world that would allow play to get so rough that injuries start occuring. If there are, they should be stripped of their license. But I am willing to guess those are 1 in a million.
Coach, officiating is VERY subjective. Yes, we have a rule book that lays out the guidelines of what must happen for a violation to occur, but after that it is up to interpretation and style. Some officials tend to allow rougher play and others may call every ticky tack foul that he or she sees. If officiating was objective, there would be no such thing as coaches getting T's for arguing. Like others said, that is a good way to get on an officials bad side. Its a bad business practice anywhere in the world to try to tell someone, even in a diplomatic manner, how to do their job better if you are not in the position of boss.
My suggestion is that you dont try to approach the officials about changing his or her styles. If you dont like the way they officiate, talk to the president of the local association, the assignor, your AD, or whoever is in charge of hiring and sending officials to your school and respectful and quietly ask that these particular officials are not sent back to officiate at your place. If you run into them on the road, just deal, man. Just deal.
[Edited by WooPigSooie on Mar 13th, 2006 at 11:10 PM]
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