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Originally Posted by icallfouls
In today's world of litigation, I would advise not making any sort of contact as it might give the appearance that you believe there is some sort of culpability by the crew. Let it go unless asked to do something by your assignor.
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Agree. First send your email (to the athletic director) to your assigner, who can then forward it to the athletic director.
I once had a site director, after a game one night, a few years ago, ask my partner and me about the sportsmanship shown by his kids during the game. Both my partner and I told the site director that we were very impressed by their behavior. The site director told us that good sportsmanship was one of the goals of both the athletic director and the new head coach, and would we kindly send an email to the athletic director stating what we had just talked about. I decided, what's the harm, and did so, also sending a copy to my assigner. My assigner was livid. He wants all communication between schools and officials to go through him. He said that I should have sent the email to him first, and he would have then forwarded it to the athletic director.
Other than confirming my games with athletic directors in advance of my games, I'll never communicate with schools, without going through my assigner first, again.
I disagree with Mark Padgett about what the first rule of basketball is. As far as I'm concerned, the first rule of basketball is, "Don't piss off your assigner". Newbies, please don't ask Mark Padgett what his first rule is. If you value all that is good in the world, please don't ask.