Two things about Kansas Officials:
1.) All officials have an obligation to go to the table if a coach calls you over THE RIGHT WAY (i.e. walks quietly to the table, raises his hand, and waits quietly). You cannot make an assumption about why the coach is calling you to the table. Statements like "You can't question my judgement," and "You better make sure you know what you're calling me to the table for." are arrogant, unprofessional, and have no place in our sport. This came from one of the other "Officials of Year" The Tournament Director witnessed this unprofessional conduct and still allowed this person to receive such an award. I was given two warnings for telling a ref that he was arrogant and that he didn't have to be a jerk about my calling him to the table the right way. Again, the tournament director watched this happen and stood by the officials conduct. Where does a coach go when he does it right and still gets the shaft?
2.) The out of bounds is a "guideline" it is not a rescue line for an official who doesn't want to make a tough call. All too often I have watched officials stop action that would result in scores simply because kids get close to out of bounds. Good officials stop the action, Great officials stand their ground wait to see what unfolds, then makes an intelligent decision.
May I ask what reason you had for calling that official over to the table? And before you answer that question, if your answer is going to be that "I wanted an explanation of a call" than you were already in the wrong for calling that official to the table. Unless you were checking on the score of the match or a misapplication of a rule occurred i.e a 3 point near fall was awarded for a 2 second count, then there really is not other reason to be at the table.
Now if an official has just made a close judgment call, and the next thing he sees is a coach going up to the table, what would you guess that nearly everyone in the building would be thinking his reason for doing so is? In either case maybe the official was just trying to save you from actually getting a warning by encouraging you to not go to the table for what was obviously going to be a situation of you questioning a call he made.
Now as far as the out of bounds are concerned, if you are truly going to criticize an official for stopping a match that he believes might endanger the safety of the wrestlers, then you are not as intelligent as you really think you are. Perhaps the next time a situation is reverse and your wrestler gets his head run into a table, or bounced off an unsafe portion of a non wrestling surface you'll change your mind.
