Thumbs up for eschewing proper mechanics

[DownTownTonyBrown]

PS2Man, I disagree with your disagreement...

It didn't sound like this was a mistake on the official's part. Sounded intentional.

You stated:

can and will stop a lot of shouting and continuous chatter. The calling official can go right to the coach and say what happen or address a situation. If you do not have the communication skills to do this I could see this being a problem for any official. If you have the communication skills this makes your life a lot easier.

My response to your statements is, Maybe.

Communication is a two-way street. Your skills may be great; the coach's may suck. Result? you still have screaming and childish crap. Perhaps, a way to try to help that coach keep his frustration bottled or keep him from screaming is to put a different official in his proximity for him to yell around. ... rather than the official that is going to want to defend his call.

It depends upon the call... was it a chicken crap call? Well, chicken little, you better go collect your penalty. Was it a good call? Then the coach is probably being out-of-line. And maybe the best solution is to send someone else over to play drill seargent get him back in line.

Sounds like this crew had a well laid out plan and that it worked well. If only we all had the same forethought abilities.

JMHO