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Originally posted by bigwes68
If I feel like coaches and players have exhibited exceptional sportsmanship and have been very courteous to me the whole game, I will tell them after the game that I appreciate it. If not, I get the heck out of there.
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We create the situations we find ourselves in.
The vast majority of my games go very smoothly and I rarely have a coach that I don't want to be within earshot of at the end of the game. Create that atmosphere for yourself and your participants, and then it's no big deal. But in general, as others here have said "Get gone, man." Do not make any opportunity for a battle or to be shown-up by the lack of a handshake... just don't be there. Whatever conflict that may have ocurred during your game is over and done... don't exacerbate the situation by trying to force a handshake or some small talk pleasantries. Some of us find ourselves in these less than favorable positions... but by being there, you have created that situation too.
Several are the times I have said "I will explain it to you later, or after the game." NEVER, NEVER, NEVER have I yet, had that after the game conversation be one in which I have come out on top. IT IS A NO WIN SITUATION - so why be there or be involved.
Is there an echo here? GET GONE!
