wrestling2005 I can admit there are some officials in our state who may need some help with their officiating. However to be perfectly fair, all of us have ways in which we can improve ourselfs. Heck even I still see new situations every week. However my point in this whole thing has been, I believe coaches and parents are going about this in a completly wrong way. So here is my suggestion.

If you have a problem with an official. And I mean a serious one, as in you are absolutly certain that said official is not calling something according to the rules, do not try to argue with him/her out on the mat because that is not going to yield positive results. Instead at some point in the tourny make it a point to find the head official, and ask them if they would be willing to watch the official in question to see if he/she is indeed not calling something according to rules. Please note you must not make it seem like you are whining about the issue, and that you have a genuine concern. The head official may be willing to take a look and if indeed he does see something being done wrong he may take the official aside and give him some coaching. I have done this in the past with other officials, and I've also been on the recieving side of this type of coaching when I first started officiating. This is the way we should be teaching our young officials and helping some who may have a wrong interpretion. It is a far better way than "Booing" a ref, or muttering things like "Oh that guy is terrible"

To be honest I have heard several officials this year say that they will not be back next year because they are tired of the abuse from coaches week after week, and they'd rather not throw people out. This is not a good thing for you coaches, if you don't give these officials time to develop you are just going to continue to get an influx of new officials every year and most of them won't make it more than a couple of years.