[jkohls]

I am a FB coach who took up basketball offiating several years ago. It has actually made me better FB coach as I now do not "ride" officials much. Talk with them, yes, but ride them no.

It wasn't always that way. My first year many moons ago, after a TD run by the opposition on which I felt an illegal block below the waist had occurred, I commented "It you don't throw the flag at some point, someone is going to get hurt." Must have been loud because the WH threw the flag and came over to inform me what I had won. I walked to midfield and awaited the kickoff. As the wing ran past me, I said, "You still haven't thrown yours." Two minutes later, as I sat in the lockeroom awaiting the end of the game, I contemplated my mistake. I haven't had flag since in the rest of my years on the sideline. Did I deserve to be booted? Probably not. Should I have kept my mouth shut? Yep. Did it teach me a lesson? Oh yeah. Embarrassment can do that.