Captains meeting

[Eastshire]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

It does not really matter to what you say in the introduction, but I want to make it clear I am not their peer. I save the first name to people I meet socially. I am not talking to players and even coaches in this situation socially. And it is not unusual to meet up with coaches socially in many situations in my experience. Even when you know a coach I still introduce myself as if we have never met before a game.

Peace

FWIW, I think the stripes are what make it clear you aren't their peer.

Originally Posted by zm1283

You don't let coaches call you by your first name during the game? What do you do if they call you by that? Ask them to stop?

In college baseball (And professional for that matter), umpires and coaches/managers use first names. I work college games, so it kind of carries over to basketball for me.

There are guys I work soccer with who will yellow card a coach for using their first names. But that's a bit more about soccer culture perhaps.

I've gone back and forth across the years. Currently, I use my first name only with players and first and last with coaches. I expect both to address me by ref, referee or sir and I address them by number or coach, respectively.

I only make an issue of a coach calling me by name if it happens more than infrequently and I then ask him to stop referring to me by my first name. (The reason of course is that it does imply familiarity which can give the appearance of the lack of neutrality.)