Coaches Comment you will chuckle...

[DJ_NV]

ljudge,

I agree completely, unless it gets out of hand. My point is that 1) unlike the inital post where the coach only thought he could get rung up for profanity, there's a couple more rules that can draw a flag, and 2) more importantly, it's just entertaining to read those rules. Few lines in the rulebook are a better example of the age-old discussion about the difference between "letter" and "spirit" of the rules. I guess I didn't note my sarcasm in text form.
One of the guidelines that we use in our association is when the coach starts using the word "you".
"That's a BS call!!" is different from "You are a terrible official." I'll let a coach have his brief two cents, however he loses a lot of latitude when he starts getting personal. Now it's certainly not because I have a thin skin..I've certainly been called worse. However, I do believe in upholding sportsmanship especially at the HS and NCAA level and I think that players need to see consequences when certain lines are crossed--and that's one of them.

Speaking of educating coachs, I was LJ on a Varsity game last Friday and I've got 1/10 at the B-26 going in. My sideline is on offense and during the play, the BJ and I have DPI down around the B-5, incomplete pass. So my sideline is happy with the call but then one of the assistant coaches yells to me, "Hey, you only marched off 13 yards! I thought it was a 15 yard penalty." He gave me a vacant look when I said we can only go 1/2 the distance. It was still deer in the headlights so I said that any 15 yard penalty inside the 30 (going in) will always be a 1/2 distance and not the full 15. Still nothing, so I gave up.