Should I have done differently?

[ChuckElias]

Originally posted by lrpalmer3
Experienced coaches know how to expose an official's weaknesses.

This is also very true. An experienced coach is often looking for a way to work an inexperienced official. If you tell him/her that your partner did not, in fact, know the relevant rule, then you've just handed your partner over to that coach on a silver platter -- "Don't you know that rule, either?!?!"

That'll get ugly fast!