Statisticians on the sidelines

[Bad Mood Risin]

If they're not saying anything and out of the way, they can do their job anywhere they want to go, outside the 2-yard restraining line.

Had one guy who was a school's cross country coach and kept stats, wearing a coach's shirt identical to the staff, decide he was going to provide some editorial comments. I told him to knock it off or he was going to cost his team 15. He said he was working for the newspaper, not the school. Didn't matter, he looked like a coach to me and I was going to treat him as such (in addition to the simple fact that he is, in fact, a coach at that school and I knew it.)

He stopped bothering me.