Pregame conferences: Captains and Coaches

[zm1283]

Originally Posted by Whistles & Stripes

I once had a coach tell me that he would be the only person talking to the officials, that none of his players would be. We ended up whacking one player that game, and the coach had an early exit.

I had a visiting team a few weeks ago from another part of the state that was playing a team locally on a Friday night. The HC did his communicating through the players. It was kind of weird. It only happened a couple of times, but I would call a foul on #10 for example, and he would ask what he did, I would tell him, and he would turn around and tell the coach. The players were really respectful and professional about how they asked us questions, and they would relay it on to their HC and he would just nod and say "okay". I had never seen that before.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by zm1283

The players were really respectful and professional about how they asked us questions.

What? You mean that you talked to players that were not a speaking captain? You probably forgot to ask for a speaking captain during your pregame, forgot to ask what his number was, and make them show it to you from under their warmup jersey, and then forgot to ask if the speaking captain was starting? Now you made it tougher for the next official who works their game, all the players will think that they're allowed to speak to an official in a respectful and professional manner. It will be total anarchy. Well? We all learn by our mistakes. Don't we? I'm sure that you'll do a better job in your next game.