Spirit of the rules

[Rick82358]

I agree that the situations are different. But my point is that some officials put the whisle away about two minutes before the game horn sounds and that is wrong, as your evaluation says.
The end of the game in my mind is when the horn blows unless the table is calling me due to error, Which I hope we took care of before the horn. Or a coach is following me off the floor with some interesting verbage for my self or partner.
The spirit of the rule is important and I think gets lost somewhat on younger officials who are not really students of the game.
But it sounds like you are the type of coach that I would like to work your game. I so enjoy working with Kids who are well coached in both the game and sportsmanship.
Good luck!