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Originally posted by zebraman
John,
The stop sign is one tool that can be used to work with coaches. It is a good one, but not the only one. For me, the stop sign is my FINAL warning. Once I say, "that's enough coach" and give the stop sign, any further barking will earn a T.
I'm fortunate to work in an area where coaches have no input to ratings and we do not have a scratch list. Hearing that coaches have input and can even scratch a ref in other parts makes me feel very fortunate (actually, it makes me feel like we do it right and I feel sorry for refs in areas that have coach input). 
Z
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I think the preception that living in an area that has coaches ratings is overrated. I live in such a state, and really it makes almost no difference. The coaches know who the good officials are or the veterans they trust. And anytime we are rated, the losers are thrown out. And those are the ones that are pissed off most of the time anyway. And it is not like ratings are the biggest thing, ratings have more to do with playoffs. But you are compared with every other official, so in the end, they are going to see the same officials whether they like it or not. It takes more than one coach to make your ratings bad. Officials can rate others too so in the end you can offset many of the bad ratings. So in the end, no one really cares that much about them.
And the only scratch lists have to do with conferences. And not all conferences do the same things. So scratch list have little or nothing to do with your schedule. And I personally only do 2-3 games per conference. I really do not want to see coaches that much in the first place.
Peace