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Old Wed Jun 17, 2009, 09:22pm
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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Originally Posted by Nevadaref View Post
Two comments:
2. Unless your board members are also officials, they have no business deciding whether or not a T was warranted. What training do they have to render such a decision? I believe that you are setting a poor precedent by allowing the board member's opinion to potentially override the judgment of the game official.
Did you miss the part that the refs were young HS kids...14-16 years old? Most of them couldn't have more than a few games on the books. Most will probably be very slow to call a T to start with but a few will get easily flustered over nothing (something misheard and or misunderstood) and/or will be trigger happy.

I'm entirely OK with the more mature and independant board member reviewing the situation with regards to suspensions. More often than not, I bet they'll be confirming the T rather than overriding or even stepping in and dealing with an out of control coach when the kid is clamming up.
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