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Originally posted by rockyroad
This bebanovich guy (I'm assuming he's a guy) seems like the worst kind of coach. He thinks he's "working" refs when he's really just being a PITA...look at his posts here. Any post that agrees with him is a wonderful, insightful, thoughtful post...someone like PGCougar comes along and disagrees with him, and it's instant sarcasm and a-holeness (is that a word? If not, it should be)...we all know coaches like that, don't we?
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Can you find an example of a post where I was sarcastic or a-holey (let's just make a-holeness and a-holey both words) to someone who wasn't either insinuating (for some, as yet, unexplained reason) that I'm here to work the forum, calling me a liar, calling me unprofessional, calling me the worst kind of coach, calling me a howler monkey (despite no real evidence), was intentionally patronizing sarcastic and a-holey?
For example, JCrow brought up a good example about the message that it sends to kids if you try to work the refs and that it can give your kids an excuse to lose and turn them into victims. While I agreed with the basic premise of his statement, I didn't agree entirely with his take. I started with, "This is a very good point and something that I deal with directly with my team." Then I presented my take. It felt like a grown-up conversation with disagreement.
Later, JCrow decided to get a little patronizing and poke a little fun because I spend time thinking about stuff like this. He advised me to try thinking about coaching. Although I came here for, and enjoy, the intellectual pursuits and can actually handle thinking about a few things at once, I also enjoy the sarcasm and snarkiness when that seems to be where things are going.
See? Same person, two disagreements. One I label thoughtful, one I get all sarcastic and a-holey. And I have the same wry smile on my face when I type both.
Now, while I don't find your post especially thoughtful, and you did, in all fairness, come about as close to calling me a sarcastic a-hole as one possibly can without doing it. And you threw in the patronizing old, "...we all know coaches like that, don't we?" I think this response is remarkably low on the sarcastometer.