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This past weekend i was assigned the AAA Major Bantom Boys (gr 8) gold medal game. In the finals were the tournament hosts, and a team from Chicago, the Blackout. The coach for the blackout had to be the most positive coach ever, every call was a good call, he didn't complain about 3 in the key or for a travel we missed. It was all positive. If there was a foul called, and his players disputed it, he would tell them to get in a better posistion next time.
When I called a travel on his team, one of his players started to dispute, but the coach quickly cut him off saying that life is full of adversity and and that you must learn to deal with it. If he didn't understand a call or a rule, he'd ask nicely, and he'd be given an explanation. All in all, I think that this guy is a great example of all the qualities a coach should have. All coaches should be like this guy. That's my two cents. 
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Mon Apr 05, 2004, 04:16pm
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It is certainly not true. Many of us actually do appreciate the job you do. we don't always agree with your calls, but few really seem to hate officials. Those that do aren't focusing on what matters, coaching their team. One of my officials this weekend asked me to tell one of my parents the rule for three seconds (cause he wouldn't shut up on the fourth offensive rebound we gave up in one possession!). I just said that you won't hear it from me, but I have a hard time getting my parents to learn the rules, let alone to just let the refs do their jobs. My comments to my players are along the same lines as this coach (though if I used a four syllable word in a game they wouldn't know what I was talikng about ). When they say they got fouled, I ask them, "how come I didn't hear a whistle?" When they say they didn't foul somebody, I'll tell them "that's not what the book says." They have to learn that officials are part of the game, just like the dead spot on the floor, the drops of sweat that cause them to slip, etc. Generally you get a predictable result, sometimes not. Deal with it.
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Mon Apr 05, 2004, 04:21pm
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 Frankly, I think there may be more, probably deserved, personal animosity from officials toward coaches than there is from coaches toward officials. Coaches, however, are often VERY competitive and emotional. When things aren't going their way, they tend to yell at their players and at officials. Most love their players, just as most truly appreciate how hard it is to be an official. It doesn't mean they can't be jerks, but neither does their game time behavior indicate that they hate officials. The fact is, without officials to blame for things, they'd have to blame their teams or themselves. How could they not like having somebody to blame?
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Mon Apr 05, 2004, 05:06pm
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Mon Apr 05, 2004, 05:59pm
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I worked for a coach last summer who organizes a summer league every year. I assigned all the refs. I carefully didn't put myself on his games, since I thought it might be a problem. But in the first week, of course, I ended up in his gym because of a last minute cancellation by one of my refs. In fact, Padgett was my partner for that game. The next week the guy called me and asked if Padgett and I could just do all the rest of his games. And it wasn't because we'd given him any slack, either. We both call a tight game, and his team is EXTREMELY physical. He yelled, complained and fussed through the whole thing. But the rest of the season, we got along great -- when we were off the floor. It was good for me to learn that coaches can do the love/hate thing. Now all I have to do is learn to handle it myself.
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