Well, since this thread is re-vivified:
The issue is not whether the coach can adjust to good or bad referees, but what happens to the girls when you have a bad referee, and what happens to the integrity of the game?
Tonight at Pickens we got our third goal on a PK, and let me be the first to say publicly it was a totally bogus call. Then again, they got their third goal off a direct kick from about 25 yards when the ref backed our wall up to at least 15 yards from the ball. I asked him about it at half, and he assured me it was only 10 yards and he should know because he refs high school football. OMG!!!
Does he know that the wall doesn't have to be 10 yards down the field but ten yards from the ball?
When one of my players was clearly fouled right in front of his ____ eyes, I simply asked (with somewhat elevated volume) why it wasn't a call, and he responded most eloquently with a yellow card. Did he explain why it wasn't a call? Of course not, because he has no earthly idea what a foul is.
Was he biased? No, he was horrible in both directions, but he created uncertainty and ruined a very interesting match.
IMHO.
