[tomegun]

Originally Posted by Old School

Nobody is saying that you have to calm down a coach. No one is saying this at all. However, you do need to process some people skills. If a coach asks you a question, you are obligated to answer the question. If you ignore the coach, even in a tense situation, that looks worse, imo. Coaches will become even more irate if you ignore them. That is a proven fact.

Now let's play this out a minute. Coach is ejected. Coach tells his boss A/D that those officials wouldn't answer my questions, they ignored me and then gave me a T for complaining too much. A/D calls assigner after reviewing game tape and asks the assigner, why did your officials not answer my coaches questions? We accept the T and ejection but I'm a little concerned that the crew you send over here is too inexperienced to work at this level. We do not want officials that are too intimidated that they can't answer a direct question from our coach in the heat of battle.


You are the only one that is saying this. You obviously have no people skills, whatsoever. Quick lesson. If someone is yelling at you, and you respond back in a calm manner, it has a tendency to calm the person that is yelling. Another proven fact. Customer communications 101. No one is advocating calming down an irate coach, at least I'm not. Responding too direct questions from a coach is a must, and they will come right after a technical, expect them to come right after a T, which is why I suggest calling official go opposite table in 3 person. In 2-person, calling official can go administrator FT's.

You sir, Removed by Tomegun. Don't get it twisted and think people skills will take the place of officiating skills. Some officials have to talk their way out of more stuff because of what they do. You are probably clueless on the court.