Officiating Philosophy ?

[rockyroad]

Originally Posted by Kingsman1288

So I guess I should have let Team A humiliate Team B?

Is it your job to protect one team from being humiliated? Absolutely not...

I coach HS football...two weeks ago we lost 55-7 to a team that kept their starters in the entire game trying to score lots of points. We didn't stop them...some parents complained to me after the game about what the other team did, and my response was that OUR kids needed to look in the mirror and decide to get better so that wouldn't happen again. This weekend we beat a team 52-14. We scored on our first 4 possessions and I pulled our starting backfield and played the rest of the game with freshmen and sophomores running the ball. Do I tell them to only run 5 yards and then fall down? Hell no...they have worked hard all season and had a chance to earn the reward for that. The officials just called the game. They didn't start nitpicking us because we were ahead, or nitpicking the team two weeks ago that spanked us...it's not your job to "protect" players from being bad.