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[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by rainmaker

Well, not necessarily. Those are two possible outcomes, but certainly not the only possible ones. Yea, some coaches in my area are trainable, but there are others....

At the level of ball you work, I agree with you completely. Even the 9th grade tournaments you do are composed of teams with coaches, players and parent who study the game, work at their craft and hope to keep moving up the ladder.

But you must remember back to the beginning (I think you started during the Eisenhower administration?!?) that there were some coaches who were just clueless and and equal number of scorekeepers who were the same. Those of us who flounder around in the ranks of the uninitiated have to try to be as humane as possible in working with very unskilled and uninformed folks. In this kind of situation (OP), I'll almost always get both coaches together in the hearing of the score person and let everyone off the hook the first time. Some coaches learn a little from that kind of treatment, too.

I think what these types of coaches will learn is that when things don't go their way based on some notion of "fairness" it's the official's job to wipe their...errr...their tears, that's it, pat them on the head, give them a big hug and a cookie before bending the rules and sending them back outside to play with their friends.

Of course when he runs into some hard @ss who really doeasn't want to hear it (or even a soft touch on a less than good day) this coach will whine & cry that the other ref fixed it for him last weekend and hold his breath until he gets his cookie.

Nah, T 'em up & be done with it. When little Susie innocently asks why the other team is getting to shoot the FTs the coach will be a better person if he/she is able to simply say "because I screwed up Susie, because I screwed up".