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Be respectful like you would to any other adult and expect the same of your players and their parents.
Know your verbal and physical boundries and stay within them. Coach your team. No, really coach your team by looking at what is going on. If the fouls are lopsided ask yourself "is the talent, height, defensive characteristics, physical ability and aggresion the same?" If everything isn't equal between two teams how can the fouls be equal. Understand what the officials are trying to do. I was once told "four minutes into the game you should have it by the short and curlys." You can't complain about a disparity in fouls until the end of the game and then only if the teams are equal in every area. That is probably never going to happen!
Finally, make adjustments. Isn't this a big part of coaching anyway? I will let you in on what is said many times "they will have to adjust to the way we are calling." That means what is going to be called is going to be called. You can add to that by putting a T in the mix but why? I don't want to do it but sometimes I'm forced to.
I had two very well behaved coaches in a game last night. One coach didn't say anything to us and his players didn't either. I think that has something to do with them trying to win a sportsmanship award. That isn't such a bad thing since the another product of that goal is well behaved kids. The other coach got upset twice. One was when my partner called basket interference. The other was when I sent one of his players, a starter, to the bench to take off a white T-shirt since their unforms were blue. Now this happened in the second quarter. I was in a giving mood so I told him in the firt two minutes of the game to take it off when he goes to the bench. Well, I should have sent him to the bench right then but I didn't. He played all of the first quarter and they went to the bench. He started the second quarter and a sub came in for him. He came back into the game a couple of minutes later. I sent him back. I explained all of this to the coach and he said "it amazes me what you guys come up with." Huh? I didn't write the rule book but it is in black and white. If I took the time to explain all of this and it has been a rule for a long time why do you have a problem with me? By February you should have all of this worked out. Well, I didn't hear from him anymore and he didn't have anything to complain about.
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