I will take a beating...

[parepat]

2 Cents:

I agree that most coaches coach to avoid penalties and that we officials might be a little overzeolous in our approach to blocks in the back. However, I disagree that the coaches know the rules.

Case in point, I have a brother whis is a head coach at the high school level. He was also an official for a couple years going back about 8 years ago. Even though he took the class and officiated a few years he does not know his rules anymore. Nor should he. It is too difficult to know them if you, as a coach, are not required to interprete them on a daily basis.

If you ever want to learn just how little you know about the rules, go take the class. As someone who played football through my college years, I was stunned how much I didn't know.

I'll ask a question now to you coach. Why is it that most of the time when a call goes against a coach do they imply that we are cheating them ("you are homering us, you don't like our kids, you never call anything on them" are all implications that we are cheating you)? Do coaches really think that officials care which team wins?

P.S. There was a bad call on that play in the Ohio St. v Miami game. There should have been a face mask on Miami as well!