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Originally Posted by FMadera
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. It's extremely rare that your partner needs to know why a sanction was requested (with the exception of a protestable error), so if you have any level of trust in your partner's skill, there's no need to know exactly why a sanction was requested. If a coach needs to know, then the captain can tell the coach. If the R2 happens to be there when the coach hears, fine, but if not, the R2 should be making sure the scorer records the sanction and the coach can send the captain for more explanation or ask the R2 at that point.
I've had a handful of times when my R1 has requested a card, and the coach asks me, and I've always said, "Send your captain to ask." And yeah, I've been curious myself, but the coach is already at the attack line talking to me so when the captain comes back, I can easily hear. If the conversation has been further down, I've never been concerned enough to feel like I had to hear it, because I didn't need to know the reason.
But your mileage may vary.
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You have one thing right we are going to have to agree to disagree. I will say this, volleyball is the ONLY sport when an unsportsmanlike sanction is issued and the officials don't let each other know what happened if we do it your way. every other sport I officiate there is communication between officials when an unsportsmanlike conduct situation occurs so all officials know what is going on. That includes football, basketball, soccer, swimming and diving, softball, and baseball. Also, when an coach is issued a sufficient enough sanction to warrant a report to the state association, both officials are supposed to be involved in the reporting process so both officials need to know, that includes volleyball. One of the questions we get asked when an ejection occurs if we are the non-ejecting officials is what were the sequence of events leading up to the ejection. If we are not communicating we may not know and may not be able to answer that question, thus the reason communication between officials is REQUIRED, not optional.