Officials Responsibilities on Free Throws...?

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by rainmaker

Well, I've had coaches send evals to my assignor and I am grateful, even when they go both ways (there's that euphemism again). Some assignors are smart enough to separate the wheat from the chaff ( Aren't you, Woddy?

Nope. I ain't that smart and I don't pretend to be.

I feel that coaches are:
1) not qualified to evaluate officials, or..
2) if they are qualified, they are not watching the officials solely during the game anyway. They are watching the players and the play instead.

Similarly, officials are not qualified to evaluate coaches while they are officiating. They don't know the thought processes that the coach is going through, or the reasons that he's doing what he's doing.

The only way that you could get a meaningful evaluation either way would be to be fully trained in the other's job, and also then just sit in the stands and do absolutely nothing else but evaluate the other person as a coach or official, while ignoring the rest of the game and everybody in it.

If you don't do that, then the coach's evaluation of the officials usually hinges on how many of the close calls went his way. That's just human nature. It also turns his evaluation into toilet paper imo though.