Griz vs Southern Utah

[Agent G]

The success of coaches to influence officials and their calls is over-rated. A lot of coaches, players and fans incorrectly think it's necessary to carry on and on about calls or non-calls to change official's behaviors. In a large majority of cases that just doesn't happen.

SUU was in foul trouble simply because they were hacking the crap out of everyone like they've been doing all year. It wasn't because their coach wasn't complaining to the refs about calls. I don't know anything about his coaching ability, but I do know that most of those fouls were justified and several fouls that weren't called could have been.

It's understandable for coaches to get frustrated and let the officials know about it. But coaches that spend too much time trying to "work" the refs, at the expense of directly coaching their players, run the risk of missing opportunities to really influence the result of the game through their player's actions on the floor. They also run the risk of sending the message to their players that they don't control their own destiny...that it's in the hands of the officials.

I think it's fine for coaches to get on the refs when they feel they need to, just as long as they don't lose sight of directing the players and controlling what they really have control over. Tinkle appears to be pretty good about doing that. Even when he gets on the refs, he appears to have good rapport with most of them and he can let it go and get back to coaching.

 

[Grizbacker1]

The success of coaches to influence officials and their calls is over-rated. A lot of coaches, players and fans incorrectly think it's necessary to carry on and on about calls or non-calls to change official's behaviors. In a large majority of cases that just doesn't happen.

SUU was in foul trouble simply because they were hacking the crap out of everyone like they've been doing all year. It wasn't because their coach wasn't complaining to the refs about calls. I don't know anything about his coaching ability, but I do know that most of those fouls were justified and several fouls that weren't called could have been.

It's understandable for coaches to get frustrated and let the officials know about it. But coaches that spend too much time trying to "work" the refs, at the expense of directly coaching their players, run the risk of missing opportunities to really influence the result of the game through their player's actions on the floor. They also run the risk of sending the message to their players that they don't control their own destiny...that it's in the hands of the officials.

I think it's fine for coaches to get on the refs when they feel they need to, just as long as they don't lose sight of directing the players and controlling what they really have control over. Tinkle appears to be pretty good about doing that. Even when he gets on the refs, he appears to have good rapport with most of them and he can let it go and get back to coaching.

Excellent post! For the previous poster who implies there are no great coaches who do not ride officials I will point to Brad Stevens as the perfect example of a Coach who not only gets it done, he does it with class and is a gentleman.

To add to the above post, officials get sick and tired of coaches who whine about each and every play, and they do not get the benefit of the doubt on a lot of resulting close calls largely in part because of the incessant complaining "that's a bullshit call ref".

 

[GrizLA]

Tinkle and team are not looking forward to a visit to Cedar City in a few weeks to face goon ball on SUU home court...

I guess if you can't coach or have a team to coach you play hack ball....sorry excuse for a D1 team

If it helps them find out what the Big teams already know, then I say learn and profit by it so they have a chance to pull an upset in the First Round....Wisconsin was a wake up call...