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Thanks for the confidence builders and great advice. Dan, when the coach got upset at the travel call, he wasn't yet at the tirade stage - he just complained about the call, so I just told him as I went by that the kids feet had to come down together. It wasn't until a few questionable calls and no-calls by my partner as the first half went on that he got really animated. I had a partner who worked in slow motion and most of the time I didn't even know what he was calling. He was an older guy and pretty set in his ways and our halftime conversation was pretty much about how we were going to handle the coach in the second half, not to mention the fact that the varsity guy (the one who argued the jump stop later on) was already in our locker room and decided to get in a cultural discussion with my partner, who is native american. I agree that giving him a T as soon as he started would have been a possible way to handle it, but he didn't yell and I was the only one to hear it, so I erred on the side of letting it go. It was the beginning of the game and I wasn't expecting him to be so ornery, but I should have seen the red flag. My mistake. I like your idea about waiting for the coach to leave at halftime - I will definitely follow that advice the next time something like that happens.
DJ - thanks for the ego boost. I needed it.
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