Frustrated about ratings system and postseason assignment

[SC Official]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Actually, if you enforce obvious rules, most coaches will respect you more than those that just turn a blind eye. For example, the coach that is always in the coaching box tends to like officials that will enforce the box when coaches are all over the court. Usually, they know these rules are not the ones you as the officials have made up. You just have to be right and you do not have to use the penalty to enforce those kinds of rules.

Bottom line, coaches will always have some say. They may not be the final say, but they have a say and should in many cases. The good coaches know who the good officials are. I would not worry about it any more than I worry about what a coach thinks of the job I do. I do what I feel is right and move on.

Peace

I don't think it's unreasonable that coaches get some say in who they feel the "best" officials are. After all, they are the ones that have a stake in the game. Sometimes I don't think we as officials give them enough credit to be as fair as they can in their evaluations (I'd rather have coach ratings than peer ratings which is what we have in SC). What there needs to be is a "check and balance" to throw out the "extreme" ratings on the high and low end of the spectrum.

But a 100% coach-driven rating system? That might be more ludicrous than the system we have where I live.