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Flank Presentation. “What does it take to become a Successful Flank Official?”. What Makes a Successful Flank Official?. Mentors / Mentoring / Leadership Mechanics Rules Knowledge, including proper enforcement of all penalties Physical Appearance Physical Fitness Communication Skills
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Flank Presentation “What does it take to become a SuccessfulFlank Official?”
What Makes a Successful Flank Official? • Mentors / Mentoring / Leadership • Mechanics • Rules Knowledge, including proper enforcement of all penalties • Physical Appearance • Physical Fitness • Communication Skills • Confidence / Presence • Pre-Snap • “Money Plays”
Mentors / Mentoring / Leadership • Mentors • Finding a mentor • Accepting feedback, both positive and negative • Mentoring • Time to give back • Looking for opportunities to mentor • Leadership • Taking active roles in local associations
Mechanics • Purpose of Mechanics • Puts us in the right place to make the right call. • Proper mechanics portray confidence that you are in the game. • Pre-snap Routine • Communicating with Partner, with Referee, Umpire, and Back Judge
Rules Knowledge • Flank officials are the communicator with the head coach regarding penalties and enforcements. • Flank officials must know the enforcements and available options to be able to communicate with the coach. • Study one rule per week. • Rules study is year round.
Physical Appearance • What does your physical appearance say about you? • Confident, takes pride in appearance or lazy, lacks confidence. • Coaches, AD’s, fans get less than a minute to size you up. How do you appear to them? • Updated and clean uniform • New Hat – Each year • Shirt – clean, not wrinkled, stripes are white and not gray • Knickers / Black Pants – clean, white, not yellow, pressed • Socks – new each year if striped, are you wearing black socks with black pants • Shoes – polished, cleaned, not covered with mud
Physical Fitness • Are you in shape? • Are you overweight or could stand to lose a few pounds? • Can you keep up with the players for 48 minutes? • Can you cover your sideline from goal line to goal line and be in the right position to make the difficult call?
Communication Skills • Sideline • Crew • Chain Crew • AD
Confidence / Presence • Are you confident in your abilities? Do you portray that or come across cocky and arrogant? • Do you command respect? • Are you in control at all times?
Pre-Snap • Do you have one? • Is it written down? • Is it consistent or does it change week to week?
“Money Plays” • Line to Gain • Goal Line • Close sideline plays • DPI / OPI