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Originally posted by theboys
You refs are actually lucky. For the most part, you only hear the carping during games. We get to listen to unsolicited advice before and after games (especially after games!), at practice, while we're sitting in the stands watching other games, late night phone calls, and if we're good enough to make the big time, from media "experts". And, then there are the parents!
I'm not a howler monkey! I'm a whiner monkey!
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Actually, refs DO get unsolicited advice before and after games, in the stands, and the occasional late night phone call. Although you're right about not during practice -- unless you count camp.
But I just thought that coaches might have more clout in influencing the kinds of idiocy Packer commits on the air. Perhaps I'm wrong about that.
Also, I see that coaches are in some ways in a tougher spot from refs. We do have some camaraderie and support for each other, where coaches really are somewhat more isolated socially from each other. And I suppose you are more exposed to the carping of the parents than we are. Good heavens, am I gonna end up feeling SORRY for a coach? MAJOR PARADIGM SHIFT!!!