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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
The day that you stop worrying about what coaches think will be the day that you start learning how to become an official.
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I will work two games tomorrow where I have two coaches and teams that I have some knowledge and history with. It is not necessarily a bad history, but I had one of the teams less than a week ago and they lost. I will also have this team two more times and in less than a week is the first one outside of this tournament. I guarantee you I will discuss this with my partners. It will clearly be apart of our pre-game because I do not want my partner's to be blindsided if a coach goes off about me or because I have this history. There is likely not to be any problems, but they need to know I have had this coach a few times and some of that history. That knowledge is valuable to my partner's and would be to me if I knew a coach and a particular official had some history. That knowledge might help us head off a potential problem later in the game before it has time to stew. This is not different than knowing a coach is a legend and that coach has a history of threatening officials. You might know that coach is full of smoke or that they tend to threaten them during the game so if you T the coach, we (the officials) all know why.
Peace