I don't think there is any prohibition in the rules against a Ref talking to a coach. This just happened to me on Friday. We had a roughing the kicker call a few plays prior to the change and he asked my LJ if he could go out and talk to me. LJ said no, but I'll see if he can come over to talk to you. After we set the ball and change, I went over. Coach wanted a clarification on whether we had a tipped ball. I went over the play, told him that neither the Umpire or myself saw or heard a tip. He was satisfied and we moved on.
I had no problem meeting with the coach in that scenario.
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