Hell, letting players call their own very well might be a better system. The level of incompetence/corruption is that bad, imo.
We lost a game on an illegal touching play. Was up 1 late in the game. Opponent's WR runs out of bounds for 10 yards of a fade route on 4th down, Hail Mary style. Our guy stopped covering him so tight. He comes back inbounds to catch a 45 yard pass to our 5. They flag the play. Illegal touching came from out of bounds, was first player to touch the ball. Great, right? Hell no! They assess the penalty from they end of the catch putting them well in fg range. No amount of reasoning or explaining could convince the white hat he was wrong. Head coach said, "Hell, next time I'll have my WR run behind the bench, go 50 yards downfield & step back inbounds to catch the ball. Ref said,"You can do that!" What should have happened was 5 yard penalty from the original LoS & loss of down. Our ball. Game over. Assing the penalty from the end of the catch/run and no loss of down, they kicked a fg as time expired. Lost by 2. The kicker is, the same White Hat called the JV game on Monday. First thing he said to me was, "We blew that call Friday." My reply. "No shit. Best you go on before one of us takes an ass whipping." I. Hate. Refs.
This is why I can't get into any kind of coaching. I'd have had a meltdown that would have made Bobby Knight proud in that situation.
The phantom whistle in the Clemson/Troy game that negated a 99-yard fumble return for a touchdown for Troy was pretty bad. Clemson RB gets stood up at the goal line before the whistle and is stripped. It's only after the ball is recovered by Troy and streaking the other way that a whistle was heard.
I probably wasn't the most professional with how I handled myself. They'll really let you get away with saying some stuff after they screw up that bad.
