Advice for first year ref...

[sj]

Not much to add to what the other guys say except one piece of advice for new officials that will help things at least not get worse..... Always take your flag and bean bag out of your belt when you go to the bathroom.

Seriously coaches are wrong 9 out of 10 times. And the other 1 out of ten times they only might be right. They just want calls and they don't care if you make the right one or not. They just want you to make it for them. So they will always yell. Since your off the field now I would take the time to think through the ones they were questioning and if any of them had to do with an application of a rule go right to the rule book and look it up. That way you will solidify your thinking about what is right and what is not. If something they complained about might have had to do something with your mechanics go to the manual and make sure you were looking in the right spot etc. If something had to do with a judgement call talk to your partners and get their feedback. One other thing. Since you admit to starting to question yourself they might have sensed it that you were new. Some of all that begging might have been an attempt to get you to get them a call. As you get more sure of yourself in responding to coaches a lot of that goes away.