I think what you will find is that as the season enters the qualifying tournaments particularly the matches affecting potential medals and advancement, that coaches from around the state tend to get way more vocal, argue a lot more, argue a lot longer, and generally act in ways that they wouldn't typically do during the regular season when the stakes aren't as high. This of course has a correlational effect to the number of ejections in post season.

Should officials take into consideration what is at stake? Sure, I think any good official recognizes that situations heat up as the season comes to an end. On the other hand there has to be a point at which it is no longer acceptable to continue a conversation that isn't going to change a call that was made on the mat (which is almost never). Basically if it gets to the point where an official issues a warning to a particular coach, the is really the verbal cue that the conversation is over, coaches go back to the corner, and the match continues on. Unfortunately in some situations that warning doesn't seem to be enough and a coach continues to try and extend the conversation either about the call itself or the warning they received, and the inevitable ejection comes.

To be perfectly honest, there exists a number of high school level coaches around the state who get away with approaches to the table in violation of the misconduct rule, basically because officials want and need their votes for postseason. This of course is a flaw in our post season assignment system, but my point really is that some people seem to think that officials are mean, nasty, and overbearing, when in fact if officials around the state truly assessed the penalties exactly by the book, you would be absolutely amazed at the number of team point deductions and possible coach ejections at the high school level that would occur year over year.

At the kids level officials tend to be even more lenient towards coaches. This happens basically because of the recognition that kids level coaches are universally unpaid volunteers, and as such may not in fact be as cognizant of the rules as their high school counterparts. Also factoring into play is the unsaid and unwritten notion that ejecting coaches and competitors from kids tournaments may lead to that club not attending said tournament in future years, and therefore much effort is made to avoid this situation if at all possible.



I'll quote for you a passage directly out of the KSHSAA Sportsmanship manual



In other words, by making the action you described, or by verbally or physically counting back points to an official, yelling things like "make the top guy work" or any number of other such acts, that person has ceased to be a coach, and has now decided to assign himself the responsibilities of the official which is clearly not his role. Generally speaking, most officials will ignore or brush this off as just spirited or excited coaching. In some cases it clearly goes beyond that.

I don't think there is a coach in the state that would really appreciate it if an official decided during the course of a match to take the whistle out of his hand or mouth, look directly at the opposite competitor of that coaches wrestler, and tell him what move to do next like "Hey red, shoot a double leg, good now run a half nelson" In other words, coaches wouldn't like it if officials were coaching up the wrestlers, so why in the world would you think its okay for a coach to tell an official how to officiate?

Anyway I apologize for the long winded rant, but sometimes things need to be said, and the berating of Kansas officials on this site really gets annoying and old as the season wears on, particularly when most of it is generally unwarranted.