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Originally Posted by SRW
Diving deeper with this - WHY and HOW did you get to be on "beer drinking terms" with them?
I think there's a difference between being friends with a coach, and being friendly with a coach. As Steve pointed out earlier, NCAA wants the latter, not the former. I personally believe that mindset should trickle down to NFHS, and even ASA to a point.
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NCAA is an entirely different animal. Even at Div III, you are probably doing a bit of traveling to the game. It is unlikely you are living in the same neighborhood, going to the same church, having kids / grand kids in the same schools with the NCAA coaches. One of the umpires in our association coaches a high school JV team and a summer travel team. Several coaches when my kids were still in school I got to know as parents before we had a coach/umpire relationship. What do I do? Shun them? Ridiculous.