personal communication with coaches

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by Bearfanmike20

Not true.... a coach can tell you if you are calling consistent game or not. A coach can see if you have an arrogant attitude... coaches can convey alot from their posistion.

Cute.

I didn't happen to see you used the word "impartial" in there anywhere...but I'm sure a coach can tell me all sorts of stuff without being even slightly impartial.

Question is, does it have value to me?

Better question is why would I call or email him after the game to ask him if he thought I sucked.

[Bearfanmike20]

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

Cute.

I didn't happen to see you used the word "impartial" in there anywhere...but I'm sure a coach can tell me all sorts of stuff without being even slightly impartial.

Question is, does it have value to me?

Better question is why would I call or email him after the game to ask him if he thought I sucked.

NO. not impartial. NEVER.. LOL but.. if you call a violation on his guys the same all the way through the game a coach will recognize that.

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by Bearfanmike20

NO. not impartial. NEVER.. LOL but.. if you call a violation on his guys the same all the way through the game a coach will recognize that.

...and again, why would I ask a coach to evaluate my performance? He'll have an opportunity to rate me.

Am I open to criticism? Absolutely. Do I evaluate my own performance during a game? Sure. Do I ask my partners for input if I think I'm not quite having the best game of my life? Yes. Do I ask a coach during or after a game what he thought of my game? Never.

[Welpe]

I apologize for dipping my toes in the basketball waters; however, this seems to be a topic that covers multiple sports.

Originally Posted by Bearfanmike20

NO. not impartial. NEVER.. LOL but.. if you call a violation on his guys the same all the way through the game a coach will recognize that.

In my experience of officiating baseball, football, and coaching football (hey only two seasons, put the pitchforks away!) the amount of coaches that are able to do this are a small percentage. I've had the occasional losing coach tell me I've done a good job but the comments of "call it both ways" are much more common.

Aside from a few personal friends that are coaches, I would not actively solicit the opinions of coaches from games that you've worked. I would imagine that is only going to invite more problems than it would solve.

tomegun, well said!

On an unrelated note, I might have to get in on this basketball officiating thingy, you guys have way too much fun here.