Verbals out of Limits

[JRutledge]

your job is not done. You have to sometimes convince a coach to be seated after the T (NF rules). You have to sometimes explain why you gave a T. Basically you have to keep your cool, be the calm before the storm and move on from there. Giving a T is great, but you have to deal with the fallout. Just because you penalize a coach for throwing down a clipboard, does not mean everything is going to be fine and dandy. Because if you do not have some conflict resolution skills, this might result in an ejection and your judgement being challenged. It is eventually going to come down to what you say or not say that will make this situation not turn to crap.

Giving a T is very easy to do, but most younger officials do not have the skills to move on from there. This is the point you will be ultimately judged in my opinion.

Peace

[rainmaker]

Originally posted by JRutledge

All the good officials keep making that point over and over again.

Peace

I agree. My point was that I am not yet in the same class as "the good officials that keep making that point". I'm just not there yet. So in the meantime, I'm using my little internal check list, to give myself some balance when I don't naturally know how to handle a situation. I didn't say that I had set my list in stone, just that it gave me a starting point.