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Originally posted by JRutledge
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had a coach say outloud, "I do not care about consistency, I just want you to call the darn foul."
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Without trying to stir the pot, I have noticed that coaches for girls' teams in my area do not care much about consistently letting the girls play through minor contact. They expect the officials to "call the darn foul".
I think this is b/c (in my area, at least) officials were divided into a "girls' board" and a "boys' board" until just three years ago. Generally speaking, if you weren't good enough to get boys' games, you joined the girls' board. That meant that the coaches were seeing average to poor officials, even on Varsity games. And those officials didn't exercise very good judgment in whether contact constituted a foul or not. So they tended to call all contact as fouls.
Then when the "boys' officials" started doing the girls games, we tried to exercise some of that judgment. But the coaches still haven't really made the adjustment. They expect the whistle to blow on anything that looks close.
That's just my experience, but it might explain the goofy comment from that coach.
Chuck
[Edited by ChuckElias on May 5th, 2002 at 03:11 PM]