Officials Talk Too Much To Coaches....

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by grunewar

As has been stated on this Forum many times.......



"My perspective is that all a referee should do is answer a question in a courteous and respectful manner," Adams said. "Don't have to carry on an ongoing dialogue."

"I think we're much better off when referees just ref and when coaches just coach," Adams said.

I agree with those statements, but coaches are the ones that like to talk about everything. They want an explanation about everything. And when you do not talk to them or ignore them they take offense to that. My goal as an official is never to have those conversations all the time, but some coaches insist on it.

In my game over the weekend where I was on TV, one of the coaches wanted to talk to me about everything no matter what happened or where it happened. He even got upset with me about a call that my partner made and wanted me to explain it as I was a T and my partner was the L. The coach wanted to know why he (my partner) called an out of bounds play instead of a foul. Coaches insist on these engagements, not officials. And you can even see a time on the video where the coach starts talking to me and I had nothing to say but respond to his questions.

I would rather go through games and hardly talk to a coach unless there is a really unusual situation they need some explanation for.

Peace