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Originally Posted by Jay R
I had a similar situation not long ago. I called a player for palming the ball twice in the first 4 or 5 minutes of game. While standing in front of the coach during a dead ball, I asked the coach if this was normally a problem for this kid to palm the ball. The coach's response was: "You referee and I'll coach". I didn't expect that response since there had been no problems up to this point. I said: "Understood". I figured there is no point in complaining about his response although I felt it was unwarranted. I just figured if he came looking to talk about something later in the game, there wasn't going to be a lot of dialogue from me.
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I'll bet what happened at some point (or more than once) in his coaching career, some referee said to him, "You coach and I'll referee." He's just been waiting to turn that around. As for discussing the call, if the coach doesn't want to talk about a call against his team, I'm not going to bring it up either.