Game Management

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Smitty

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As I'm walking to the dressing room with my partner, who was the C getting an earful, he says I might have just called the foul at that point in the game. It wouldn't have affected the outcome and the coach would be content. I told him it wasn't a foul. He said that coach never gets up and complains and he was up in my ear and a foul would have prevented him from getting upset and it wouldn't have hurt the game. Game management.

I get what he said, but I'm still thinking about it. He's a big dog in the association. While it shouldn't matter, it still does.

So what did he expect you to do, call a foul after the coach started complaining? How are you supposed to know that the coach would get upset over that play? Or was there contact on the play and you passed on it? (I see now that you said there was). I'm assuming there were other plays where the crew passed on contact and you say you had a game where there had been no issues with the coaches, so how are you supposed to know this one play would trigger something?

I see where your partner is coming from as far as learning a game mgmt tool, but I have a problem with the way he presented it, as if you were supposed to know that all of a sudden this one play would cause a problem.