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Originally Posted by Ignats75
I'm flabbergasted by this thread. Here, we are taught, instructed, judged, and critiqued on how we handle the coaches in that specific situation. And while calming down may be a little strong a term, one of the other officials is required to be by the bench and how he handles the coach will be critiqued. I know first hand that ignoring a coach who has been teed that is trying to communicate his perspective is judged as poor game management. It happened to a partner of mine after I had whacked a coach. The assignor was in the stands and ripped my partner a new one after the game.
I don't paint little whistles on my car door for every time I whack a coach. I don't view coaches as part of the evil empire. I also recognize that they can cross a line and get teed. ALOT of the time, they realize it too and the T can get them to calm down which makes for a better game. If me or a partner can help them calm down, then thats good game management.
But helping them calm down doesn't mean I'm throwing my partner under the bus either. But a professional demeanor even after an incident can help defuse a situation. Ignoring a coach is NOT considered good communication skills and therefore not good game management.
OK...now bring on the flames.
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There is a big difference between doing your job professionally and the philosophy being proposed by Old School and apparently your assignor...and for what it's worth, my HS partner comes from Ohio so I know first hand of the unique and sometimes completely against the manual, like no team control signal, way they do things.
As I stated earlier: In the NFHS the coach loses the box, so at that point I believe a non-calling official should go over to inform the coach, but it's not to allow the coach to voice their concerns, it's to remove some of the emotion and hopefully diffuse the situation.
If I'm going over to notify the coach I'm not talking to the coach, I'm observing the players. If the coach wants to use that first FT to talk to my backside...CALMLY...so be it, but after that second FT goes up, they get told to sit and I'm going about getting the ball back into play.
By doing it that way, I'm doing what I'm supposed to do following a T...notifying the coach and observing the players...I'm being professional and calm, but I'm not interacting with that coach. The smart coach realizes that they have an opportunity to vent a little, based on my location, but again they will be doing so to my backside and in a equally calm and professional manner.
The distinction may seem subtle, but by not saying anything but coach you have lost your box, this does usually work very well at calming the situation...key word being
situation, not coach...by giving a location that provides the coach may be heard, but in a way that nobody gets the idea that you are working a good cop, bad cop deal and selling your partner down the river by comforting the coach.