[Thnonne]

I feel the problem lies with the coaches being treated as more important than the players. We hear constantly the expression "he is working the officials", this implies a coach can get the officials to make calls in his team's favor, so he wants the officials to "cheat" the other team. I feel a lot of the blame for this is the announcers (i.e.) Dick Vitale, who have raised the coaches to such a high level the game is now more about the coach than the players who are actually playing the game. If the officials job depends on the evaluation of coaches of games they work as the main criteria for their assignments then the system needs to be examined so the officials can do their job without ranting coaches affecting the calls.