Coaches Comments...

[Hawks Coach]

I think my position is perfectly consistent. If you need to communicate something, communicate it to the person in charge - head coach. If it involves a player and you can make a quick comment, like in the other thread on the almost carry, that's probably OK too. But you are not there to coach the players - and I think there are clearly situations where refs take it upon themselves to step out of their role with respect to players.

As for whether or not you should even deal with the coach on this, think about it from a game management perspective if nothing else. Do you really want to hear about these "travelling" calls the rest of the game when you have an easy fix for this? You may also save your fellow refs an earful the rest of the season.

If you don't think it's your job to say something, I guess I can't argue that - do what you think is right. The rules don't say you need to tell the coach anything about this non-call. Just seems like a simple thing to me, and not a bad thing either.