[lmeadski]

we had a light scrum inside the lane that ended in a jump ball. One of the boys on the tie up ripped his head out of the pile of kids, holding his nose as if he'd been hit. He limped (even though it was his nose that was hit) over to his bench. The coach had his hands up in the air, wondering where his foul call was. The coach calls a subsequent time out, motions me over to the team huddle and asks, "Well, you see this?" and points at his player with a wad of UNBLOODY gauze sticking out of his nose. "He then offers, "How do you think that happened, eh?" I said, "looks like he got hit in the nose, coach." I waited a moment, no reply, then walked away. I didn't argue, just stated the obvious. I think he was waiting for me to defend the call. I did, by not directly replying. It seemed to work well.