You all know the scenario. Big game, maybe late in the game or maybe not, and the official makes a call that your side does not like. Can be any level from little kids to pros and can be in any sport.
What happens next? Well if we watch TV, the camera immediately pans to the player and/or coach who goes ballistic, or the manager who comes flying out of the dugout and starts arguing with the official. Looks great on TV - great entertainment -- but it has no place in interscholastic sports!!!!!!
So what should you do??? Ask the official in a calm voice if you and he/she could discuss the call at the next break. You all know that the call is not going to change, so why take away valuable ice time arguing???? At the break, go to the end of the bench - away from the players -- and ask the official what happened. He/she will generally give you their side of the story. And that's it. End of discussion. You got the information you wanted and now its back to coaching/teaching.
Referees are not 100% perfect -- not at this level. And guess what, neither are the players and neither are the coaches. Imagine the ref in the middle of the game yelling out, "that was a horrible line change.", or "that was the worst pass I have seen in the last 6 months." You wouldn't like it, and the players would not like it. So, as my mother once said, "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all."
Coaches coach
Players play
Officials officiate
Spectators cheer
If everyone does their assigned job, we have a great game. When we try to do more than what we have been assigned, then that is when problems arise.
As Patrick Swayze said in Road House, "Be nice."
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