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Bebanovich,
Unfortunately, due to certain character defects in my personality that the medications, professionals and my wife have been unable to correct.....I can be sarcastic and a-holey. It's easy being a Knight of the Keyboard. I'm working on it.
The very fact that you are out there working with kids makes you a good guy. None of us are perfect. Trust me, I appreciate the difficulty in Coaching. And I'll admit it...I HATE LOSING.
It's just that I don't see the subject of pre-calculated verbage in terms of increasing the satisfaction of winning. It's just bush to me. There are times when a Coach has to speak up. I saw an Andover-Lowell Game a about 8 years ago. Andover presses hard and IMO hand-checks on the traps. Defenders routinely put a hand on the trapped kids hip and pin him from pivoting. Successfully. The Lowell Team plays clean the whole game. The Refs are NOT calling the handchecks. The Lowell Coach says nothing all game. I left that game thinking that the Lowell Coach should have spoke out. This was the first year of the Rule Change on the Double-Bonus. Player Control Foul on Andover - 10th Team Foul - the Refs took Lowell down and gave them 2 shots. If I were the Andover Coach...I'd have been yelling about that one. (I'm an Andover Fan....I was yelling about it from the stands. Sorry guys...it's true.)
But that stuff is on specific points of the Rules that are actually happening during a game. It's sincere and spontaneous. Whether it's in business, personal life or Reffing....nobody likes somebody working them over physchologically or stirring up animosity with fans or kids.
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