Communication Skills to Coaches & Players.

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by zebraman

Huh? Is the officials crew not a team? Are we not there to work together and support each other? If the coach is riding my partner, should I not know about it so I can use my communication skills to get the coach off my partner and back to coaching? (and yes, give him a T if necessary). Your comments amaze me. Coaches know when the crew is not a team working together and it makes things much more difficult.

Z

You beat me to it, Z, I was going to tell O99 the same thing. We are a crew, not 3 individual people out there. If a coach says something to my partner that deserves a warning, (s)he has said it to me as well. If I don't know a warning has been issued, I would be letting the coach get away with a "free" comment to me. Ideally the warning should happen so everyone can see it, but sometimes it isn't possible. In that case, I want to know when the coach has been warned so they don't get extra leeway from the rest. That wouldn't be consistent as a crew.