I just did the course as well. Takes about 45 minutes. The content is actually really good. It is helpful information in areas of life outside of officiating. I know that none of us like being forced to do things like this, but as a board member in a local chapter for multiple sports and a former TASO division board member I see the need for something like this. While I don't absolve the coaches of blame, lots of the incident reports and issues between coaches and officials could be mitigated if officials knew the rules better (coaches as well) and if officials knew how to handle their emotions and confrontations better.
I hope that officials take advantage of this training. I actually enjoyed the content. As noted above, the questions are simple and mostly common sense, as is the content. But it is my experience that lots of coaches and officials lack common sense. The reminders in this presentation, if followed, could hopefully help conflicts not escalate and when they do, be deescalated quickly.
Personally, myself and my crew got into it with a coach in a game last week. I think the coach and the crew could have handled things differently. Listening to the content of The Texas Way reminded me of that.
