Mgodiscgolfer

January 17th, 2017 at 7:28 AM ^

This is definitely an art and most should not even try. First you need to be iconic as a coach. Secondly you must know when to pic your fights. Third you need to know when enough is enough, never argue too long. If they think you are trying to get the crowd after them on a 50/50 call, it can backfire. All the above IMO.

JWG Wolverine

January 16th, 2017 at 1:58 PM ^

I have a kind of odd and funny story about when that Rage Stripping gif took place live.

When the cameras cut to him before he started to take off his jacket, I not only thought but said out loud "take off your jacket for this". I guess he was on the same page as me.




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Blue and Joe

January 16th, 2017 at 2:14 PM ^

Stuff like this is always going to be in officiating as long as we have humans doing it. We all have built-in biases. Refs don't want to get yelled at. They can pretend to ignore it or tell themselves it doesn't factor into a call, but they're human.
 
Same can be said for all of us. A U-M fan and an OSU fan can watch the exact same play and see different outcomes. That's why you can't have refs from Ohio working the OSU game. On some level they are biased towards Ohio, even if it's not a conscious effort. It happens in every game. Tiny little biases affect calls like that.

bsand2053

January 16th, 2017 at 2:21 PM ^

There has got to be a happy medium between Harbaugh throwing stuff and Jim Caldwell just standing stoically.  I love Harbaugh but I'm worried that he is starting to get the Rasheed Wallace treatment where if someone else did what he gets penalized for it wouldn't be a big deal.  I mean he's already getting techincals. 

GoBlue in IA

January 16th, 2017 at 3:26 PM ^

You nailed it, 100% correct.  Yelling at grown men (refs) who have screwed over your players is always better than yelling at your players, even if they earned it.  

The people I manage respond better when praise is public and critique is done behind closed doors.  Harbaugh gets this; "You mad bro" above does not.

Don Brown also gets this with a recent quote I read from him: "critique the performance, not the performer".

We have the best football coaches.

 

 

JWG Wolverine

January 16th, 2017 at 3:44 PM ^

And in my opinion he's completely fair and controlled even when he works the refs. He doesn't take it outside the game and understands the refs will make bad calls, the only time he does that is when it's worthy (Columbus 2016). And when he does that he says his thoughts only when asked, keeps his cool, and doesn't go on a yelling rant about it.

People have it so wrong when they say Harbaugh is intense. He is only intense when he needs to be: on the football field. Otherwise he is a very smart, cool, and reasonable man. People who immediately describe him personally as intense, they haven't seen enough of him to get it. Intense coach (within reason), but not a intense person.




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Danwillhor

January 16th, 2017 at 3:14 PM ^

refs are human. They don't want to be yelled at. Even more is the 75k+ people at the game as nobody wants to be the guy that everyone hates. It's why make-up calls are such common knowledge that announcers use the term.

BlueDragon

January 16th, 2017 at 4:43 PM ^

Gene Smith was willing to play ball with the Friday Night Lights approach to B1G football games. In exchange, three refs from the state of Ohio; one fired for incompetence over a decade earlier; one barred from reffing 2006 The Game for conflict of interest reasons; and one ref in the Ohio High School Referees Hall of Fame.

You scratch my back, we'll scratch yours.