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I'm just asking, 'cause you've just stated you're willing to set aside bench decorum rules in a freshman game rather than make waves with the all-powerful varsity coach. I'm just wondering exactly how compliant you think officials should be for Lord Coach.
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So your previous post was just irony? Sorry, it's been a long week.
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I don't understand why this has to be such a big comment to the head coach. Maybe that is the problem, some people want every comment to a coach to be earth shattering. Asking the coach to control his bench doesn't have to be about two men squaring off. That is why some people come on here and are so broken up about giving a T. Forget all the witty/smart comments and get some guts!
This is why I wouldn't have absolutes about assistants: you can use them. I learned this many years ago from college. Assistants keep track of certain things during a game and when you want a coach to break the huddle, the assistant is probably the only one looking at you. Depending on the assistant, I will use them to help with certain situations. For instance, last night I asked an assistant to make sure none of the players were wearing white shirts under their blue jerseys - there was no other communication with an assistant. However, when it comes to complaining, they have no voice. That is when I ask the coach to control his/her bench. After that, it is open season. I'm of the opinion that your Ts will go down once you become established - if you handle things correctly early on. I have moved around more than most and I'm not shy about calling a well-earned T. Once a coach realizes I don't care about calling whatever is appropriate, the behavior changes. |
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The minute you use the word "only" to describe the level of game you are officiating is the exact moment you need to stop officiating that level of ball. And I'm not making a value judgement here. Just saying if a certain level of basketball is in the "only" category why would you continue to ref it. And another question, since when are we supposed to keep track of other "titles" of the bench personnel? I assume anyone sitting on the bench not wearing a uniform falls in one of 4 categories: Head Coach of that team; assistant coach of that team; injured player; trainer. |
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FYI - in case anyone was wondering here is a little epilogue...
we called a good game tonight and this V-Coach (which I find out is also the AD) is the one who unlocks our dressing room, brings us a bottle of water, etc... and he was nice to use. We called really good games without anything out of the ordinary, except maybe an obvious intentional foul call (against his team). After the game, the JV coach, who is young and apparently took a page from V-coach's playbook and asks (respectfully) to talk to me before i go get changed, I comply and he started talking about how i disrespected his players because of the lack of calls, some of his players were crying (JV Boys) we did not talk to him, but just went to our dressing room. Then this V-Coach/AD comes in and tells me that he will make sure that i never ref there again. since we had a good game i can only assume he is still bent out of shape about the original post situation and would have said this no matter how tonight went. I can think of nothing even close to anything he would have had a problem with tonight (BTW he had no problem with my partner) Also they have really really bad teams, this doesn't help things...Weird stuff... |
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This is a pattern and this AD has issues. |
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If a coach asks to talk to you post-game, tell the coach that you will do so only if he has a question about the rules that he would like answered. Tell him right up front <b>before</b> any discussion that if he just wants to b!tch about anything, there will be <b>no</b> discussion. If he does start to b!tch, then do exactly what you did above. Turn your back and leave. Nothing that you will say will ever change their minds. Don't ever let these clowns get to you either. |
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