I "T"ed up the score keeper.....

[doubleringer]

Originally Posted by Terrapins Fan

2nd, I had experience with this team and this coach and it wasn't a good experience. I had 2 assistant coaches yelling at me during the last game that I refereed for them. I took that into the game with me and decided that I was going to eliminate that problem and I did.

Every game is a fresh start. When you walk into a game with this on you're mind, you are in a very similar mindset to a coach that thinks, "Oh, we had this guy last week and he screwed us on a bunch of calls."

We will not let coaches bring up things that happened in previous games, so we also need to go in with a "clean slate". This is extremely difficult to do at the lower levels when officials often see the same teams multiple times and even worse at the weekend tourney level where you are on a floor all day, but it is a mindset that can get you in looking for trouble when there isn't any.