I need some strong advice.....

[mbyron]

If you get stuck with what you're calling a "money guy," in pre-game try appealing to his sense of how the game is best officiated. Use "we need to..." and emphasize that you're a team. Appeal to those noble motives and that love of the game that brought him to officiating in the first place.

It doesn't always work. But I think it's the right place to start.