What high school coaches want

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by seanwestref

Coaches want sectional officials to have worked one of their games during the season.

Coaches "vote" officials into our state tournament, and usually do a very good job selecting high quality officials.

We have a few local geographic area IAABO boards ("little corners") here in Connecticut. During the regular season, the local board will cover all home games, for all high schools, in that local geographic area.

Once we get to the state tournament, games are not officiated by where the game site is, but by which local board officiated the two highs schools involved during the regular season.

If a high school from local region "A" is playing a high school from local region "B", then neither region "A" officials, nor region "B" officials, will be officiating that game. Instead the state will assign officials from local region "C", or from local region "D".

If a high school from local region "A" is playing a high school that is also from local region "A", then the game will, most likely, especially in the early rounds of the tournament, be officiated by local region "A" officials.

It does away with the possibility of a team being "homered" (remember, sometimes perception, and reality, can be blurred, especially in the minds of coaches, players, and fans). We occasionally get some "homer" criticism during regular season games played across local regional geographic boundaries. We've actually had a few coaches want to bring their own officials with them when they cross these geographic boundaries to play regular season games. Of course they wouldn't actually allow the officials to ride on their team bus. Or would they?

[rockyroad]

What Coaches want is for our calls to go in their favor. Every time a whistle blows, they want it to benefit them. The rest of that list is just various different ways of saying that same thing.