One key thing coach's evaluations do tell us

[Texas Aggie]

I know a lot of officials have problems with coaches giving evaluations of the officials, but I think they can be worthwhile. Tonight at our chapter meeting, the secretary went over some stats from coaches evaluations and I found one thing very interesting. The evaluations and numbers were tallied (1-5; 1 the best) and averaged. They were then split by home coaches and visiting coaches with the visiting coaches numbers being a bit lower.

At any rate, both sets of coaches rated the wing official on the OTHER side of the field as the lowest rated official of the 5 out there (these are varsity game evaluations only). That tells me that good communication is critical to doing a good job in the coach's eyes. The other wing is really the only official the coach never comes into contact with during a game, and the coach never has an opportunity to offer an opinion or get a response. Obviously, we aren't going to head off all problems, but if we can improve our communication skills, I think these numbers tell us that, on average, we can improve our relationship with coaches.

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