Lincoln coach to face possible charges for yelling
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DMPS is notorious for playing victim. I feel bad for the kid, the ref clearly missed the call, the father clearly overreacted, but the district doesn’t need to play victim. It just hurts their already damaged image more.
I was confused when I went to my first Minnesota High School soccer game and only saw two officials. They appeared to be covering for being one AR short by having the two officials work opposite ends/sides of the field as hybrid center refs/assistant refs. I quickly learned that that is the way they staff high school games. I have started giving these refs a hell of a lot more slack because staffing like that is just setting the refs up for failure. It is difficult enough to call offsides properly when you are an AR. When you have the center ref's responsibilities as well it is nearly impossible to get the close offsides calls right. You are constantly out of position for one or the other and your can't give adequate attention to both areas simultaneously.
If you're out there in the middle of a game that is, was, and always was going to be a total blowout trying to be a big tough guy and take a kid out like that, that reflects very poorly on the coaches.
Actually having called a game more than a handful of times it was incredibly efficient. Particularly if you had a good working relationship with the other ref. While it isn't ideal it is not nearly as hard as you may think.
I’m sure you have a personal vendetta against Dowling like most seem to have. It was a 20 point game early in the 2nd quarter when it happened, so while clearly on the verge of a blowout, you can’t just tell kids to stop playing hard (you shouldn’t ever tell a kid not to play hard) with that much time left. Does Scates getting into it with the TCU player and them basically throwing punches at each other reflect poorly on Campbell and Patterson? The Dowling kid made a mistake, and it’s a joke that a penalty wasn’t called, but saying it reflects poorly on Dowling coaches is laughable. Unless you’re going to say every targeting penalty in football reflects poorly on coaches
I would say that what Scates did does reflect poorly on Campbell. Players should not throw punches period. These are players that coaches recruited, so bad actions reflect on college coaches. Campbell needs to sit Scates this week for at least part of the game along with some punishment. Never an excuse to swing a punch in a game.
The other guy thru the punch.....scares was not innocent in the scuffle however.
I knew the TCU guy threw a punch, I couldn’t remember if Scates retaliated with one or not. Either way he needs to just get out of there.
Did you purposely ignore where I said the kid made a mistake or just leaving that out to try to make it look like I'm saying something I'm not? The post I was replying to said the Dowling kid shouldn't have been making a hit like that in a blowout (like that matters, should never be making a hit like that ever). But I can say with 100% certainty that the Dowling coaches don't coach their players to hit like that and also doubt they were conspiring to knock the kid out of the game.
Lol, my rant? Im not the one upset that a ref cant handle some criticism. You are the one that was ranting, if you want kids getting paralyzed and the refs just stand there that proves what kind of person you are.
