"You can't coach"

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by A Pennsylvania Coach

It is understandable that coaches are going to make unnecessary comments from time to time--they have an investment in the outcome of the game while the officials do not. It doesn't make it right, and I'm certainly not defending the actions of the coaches.

And it must be equally understandable then that officials are going to make unecessary comments from time to time also. They are just reacting to the coaches who are making those unecessay comments. That makes both sides wrong and their actions indefensible, no matter how anyone may try to rationalize the behavior of either party.

A good example would be your Frosh coach "getting his comments out".