Camp Blues/Pandering to Coaches

[Altor]

Originally Posted by SC Official

I also had a clinician tell me that, in a regular season game, we need to take "as much crap as possible" from coaches because "they have to pay $300 the second they get tossed. That could be a third of their salary."

Sometimes I swear that extra punishments like this actually deter officials from making calls that need to be made in their game for exactly the reason the clinician said. "I could have called a second technical on him, but his behavior wasn't bad enough that it deserved sitting two additional games," is one I've heard in my state.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Altor

Sometimes I swear that extra punishments like this actually deter officials from making calls that need to be made in their game for exactly the reason the clinician said. "I could have called a second technical on him, but his behavior wasn't bad enough that it deserved sitting two additional games," is one I've heard in my state.

Some worry about it, some don't. My theory is, the coach is far more aware of additional penalties than I am, so he should be the one to alter HIS behavior to avoid them.