[Kit Gerhart]

Originally Posted by Ogre

If you were told that you couldn't cross the line, and knew that it sounded bogus, why didn't you go ask the refs right after they told you that?
As a coach, you should know the rules best. If the refs told you something that you don't think is in the rule book, it is your responsibility to ask the refs for clarification. That includes them reading the rule to you and explaining themselves.

There were a lot of other, well, curious rules interpretations at Colorado, like not calling the 30 point penalties on robots which repeatedly drove into opponents in their loading zones collecting tetras. Then, during the quarter final round, they called a few of them, but assessed 10 points rather than the 30 specified in the rules. With all of this going on, we didn't press the point on their "coach can't cross the line" rule. The bottom line is that there appear to be a more-than-normal number of cases this year where the referees don't really know the rules very well, or don't care about properly applying them. I hope this situation is corrected for the Championship.

By now, I'm probably being labeled a "sore winner" or much worse, but it is disappointing to see the "locally conceived" rules that are popping up this year. By the way, I have been a referee ('03 Championship and IRI) and will no doubt serve as a referee again.