Coaches Comment you will chuckle...

[Tom.OH]

JV game this morning, in our pregame with the visitors coach I asked him if all his players were legal. I had already noticed 3 clear mouthpieces. He said they were all legal, then we called out the 3 players we had seen. The coach had never heard of that rule. I told him it has been in since 2005 at least and I think 2004 letting coaches know it would be on the books in 2006. He said it was a dumb rule and whoever came up with it was an idiot. I told him all rules were made up by the coaches rule commitee. By the way, the other 40 players had yellow mouthpieces.

It was a good game, visitors kicked a 30 yard field goal as 4th period ended to tie the game. Head coaches were called to go over OT procedure. The visitors coach thought we would do a 5:00 minute overtime. I told him we started on the 20 yard line ( Ohio OT ) he looked suprised. Said if thats how we would do it that was ok with him. I told him it was the only way we would do it.

[kd0254]

Just to throw it out there. . . .

Last nights varsity game, fairly good game for our area, was clean all game, 7 penalties between both teams. 2nd quarter the home QB is scrambling back behind the play, the DE goes to tackle him, grabs and then lets go almost immeadiatly of the QB's facemask. QB goes OOB for a slight loss. End result is a 5 yard Facemask and redo second down, like 2nd and 9 after the penalty is enforced from the end of the run.

We are on the hash near the visitor's sideline just before I blew it RFP and the coach addresses me by my first name and says "come on Dale. . . .that wasn't much of a facemask". I usually never address comments like that but it had me almost laughing, I turned and said "I know, that's why it was 5 and not 15". Maybe its me but I found it hillarious that he was make a comment like that in a serious matter.

[SC Ump]

As ump in baseball I get an ear full. I like being ump in football. Sure I get run over by the big guys, but the coaches are out of mind.

Last Friday I called a hold on visitor's #67 in the mid-second quarter. The wing relayed at halftime that after telling the visiting coach which of his players committed the foul, the coach said, "Well it's about time. He's been holding all game."