Is this okay?

[Nevadaref]

I would not want to hear about it prior to a game. I would take it as an attempt to influence the officiating during the upcoming game. I would rather trust that the crew working the contest is competent and can handle the plays appropriately.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

I would not want to hear about it prior to a game. I would take it as an attempt to influence the officiating during the upcoming game.

One approach would be to ask the coach to bring up the topic at the pregame captains/coaches meeting, when the opposing coach is in attendance.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

One approach would be to ask the coach to bring up the topic at the pregame captains/coaches meeting, when the opposing coach is in attendance.

If I worked in a state where the coaches and captains all met together, I would not want the coach doing it there either. Then we're going to get into a back and forth about what officials should be looking for. Those meetings are not for coaches and captains to tell us how to officiate.

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[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

One approach would be to ask the coach to bring up the topic at the pregame captains/coaches meeting, when the opposing coach is in attendance.

Originally Posted by Raymond

If I worked in a state where the coaches and captains all met together, I would not want the coach doing it there either.

Agree. I don't want the coaches "debating" in front the player captains.

I actually posted this idea with the hope that it would politely "shame" him to be more reflective, finding it to be "inappropriate" to bring up the issue in front of the opposing coach, the officials, and the player captains.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

I would not want to hear about it prior to a game ...

I don't believe that any of us would want to hear this before a game, however, that doesn't mean that a coach, or an athletic director, will not try to broach the issue.

So we need a strategy. Maybe it's the silent treatment. Maybe it's a "Get out" and slam the locker room door. Or maybe it's something more tactful and professional.

Originally Posted by BillyMac

"We'll watch for it coach."

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

"Let's bring (other coach) over here to discuss this so we're all on the same page."

Originally Posted by cozzmokramer

Is this okay?

No, it's not.

With very rare exceptions (paperwork), the official's locker room, as well as access to officials both on the way into, and way out of, the facility, should be sacrosanct and "off limits" to everybody.

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

... an attempt to influence the officiating during the upcoming game ...

No matter how I, or my partner, handles it, my assigner would get a phone call that night. Here in my little corner of Connecticut the assignment commissioner is the communication conduit between the officials and the schools (coaches, athletic directors) and the state interscholastic sports governing body (principals, school superintendents). Knowing my assignment commissioner (true gentleman, former teacher, former coach, former official) for forty years, I'm positive that he would want to know about this "inappropriate" behavior.

However, when in Rome ...