I hear ya.

It may be hard for most to understand, but the level of respect and professionalism we receive is great. Now, some of the lesser officials may have a harder time than I do.

No, I'm not a perfect or the best official, but I do a good job and coaches know that I do a good job and that I am willing to communicate with them when they have questions. Whether it be my judgment or whatever. They don't reach a boiling point with me............not yet anyway.

Apparently you don't understand. The coaches we deal with know there is a line there. Whether it's years of experience of Ts they have received in the past, they know it.

I do a good job, and combined with that line, the coaches are great for the most part to us in our area.

I think the rest of you must deal with some pretty over the top coaches.

Fair enough. I have questions about your assignors mentality. What does "support privately" mean? Are there two sets of standards? Would they support the ejections in the public eye?

I have fellow officials in our area that haven't Td up a coach yet too. I'll buy the argument that we have missed an opportunity or two over the years to do so. I'm not perfect.

Good question.

When I say support privately I mean that I've seen and discussed situations with assignors who will "back" some of their official's decisions and actions in conversations with administrators and coaches but will privately indicate to the official that going forward, they would like things handled in a different way.

I will give an example from a few years ago that actually dealt with spectator behavior. In a game I worked, one of my partners confronted a fan before going to the locker room for half time. My other partner and I grabbed him before it really escalated to anything. The official explained that the fan made a personal comment about his hair and that struck a nerve with him.

The incident got back to our assingor who spoke with the site administrator about making sure they have the necessary protocols in place to strongly discourage and address fans making personal verbal attacks against officials.

Privately he admonished the official for his actions and reiterated to go through game management if/when an incident like that occurred again.

I don't think that you understand, but we can agree to disagree. Sometimes coaches want to get a T to fire up there team and you don't even award them that ability?

This is like saying after years of officiating I have never had a double whistle because my partners and I know our PCA lines. With years of experience this will and still does happen even to the best.

Well I don't think he said he wouldn't call a T, just that he hasn't.

Some of us know our assignors well enough to know their philosophies and expectations.

And supervisors, at times, back officials publicly while admonishing them privately.

All my warnings were soft, purposely so. I can now FORMALLY address unwanted conduct/behavior before it rises to the level of a T. There are some coaches to whom I can talk, but there are others with whom I can't because it becomes negative. I can replace those negative interactions with warnings.

Unless I hear from an assignor, I will not take anyone's word who speaks on their behalf. So far, one assignor has spoken up on this thread.

These types of people should not be in charge of anything.

This dead horse has been beat enough. Have a great day.

Why? Would you suggest that assigners throw their officials under the bus to administrators and coaches as an alternative?

Those kinds of people are in charge of many things, and successfully so.

And it doesn't matter whose word you're willing to accept. What you believe has zero effect on anybody's else relationship with their assignor(s).

Two way honesty is not throwing someone under the bus.

Assigners hire oficials but work for administrators in many places. Not being transparent and honest isn't the right way to do business.


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An official can be technically correct in how they handled a situation, but it may not have been the best way in the eyes of the assignor. An official may have suggested to game admin to have a spectator removed. An assignor can back that official's decision to conference administrator while at the same time telling his official that in the future it would be best to ignore such a fan.

So you are saying that if you didn't like the way one of your officials handled something, even if it was "technically" correct, you would tell the administrator and the official that you didn't like the way it was handled?