Give the coach an explaination

Nevadaref · #1 (**permalink**) Mon Nov 14, 2016, 09:29pm

Just verbally announce, "Travel was first" when signaling the decision. That way everyone knows and you can get on with the game.

JRutledge · #2 (**permalink**) Mon Nov 14, 2016, 09:32pm

No you do not need to go all the way across the explain a double whistle. Just say you have a travel first and move on. If a coach cannot understand that basic argument, then you will never get them to understand in a longer conversation. Just have a "KISS" attitude about these things.

Peace

SC Official · #3 (**permalink**) Mon Nov 14, 2016, 09:36pm

Don't go out of your way to give a coach an explanation he hasn't requested. If he needs one, he'll ask for it. You'll be over by his bench soon enough, and he can ask then.

crosscountry55 · #4 (**permalink**) Tue Nov 15, 2016, 12:01am

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Originally Posted by SC Official

Don't go out of your way to give a coach an explanation he hasn't requested. If he needs one, he'll ask for it. You'll be over by his bench soon enough, and he can ask then.

Some clinicians refer to this as "breaking into jail." It's a great metaphor and applies here.

Don't volunteer information when you don't have to.

Dad · #5 (**permalink**) Tue Nov 15, 2016, 01:28pm

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Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Just verbally announce, "Travel was first" when signaling the decision. That way everyone knows and you can get on with the game.

I do this occasionally and it solves absolutely everything.

stripes · #6 (**permalink**) Wed Nov 16, 2016, 02:04pm

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Originally Posted by Dad

I do this occasionally and it solves absolutely everything.

In more than 20 years of officiating, I have never heard a phrase that solves everything. There are no "silver bullets." I agree that saying "travel first" is the BEST THING TO DO IN THIS CIRCUMSTANCE, but most of us have worked for an idiot coach who refuses to be reasonable no matter what is presented to him.

Nevadaref · #7 (**permalink**) Wed Nov 16, 2016, 06:54pm

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Originally Posted by stripes

In more than 20 years of officiating, I have never heard a phrase that solves everything. There are no "silver bullets." I agree that saying "travel first" is the BEST THING TO DO IN THIS CIRCUMSTANCE, but most of us have worked for an idiot coach who refuses to be reasonable no matter what is presented to him.

Two Ts on a misbehaving individual solves everything with that person!

stripes · #8 (**permalink**) Thu Nov 17, 2016, 03:55pm

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Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Two Ts on a misbehaving individual solves everything with that person!

While not a phrase, that is a "silver bullet."

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