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Originally posted by Snaqwells
This caught my eye, coach. I wasn't there, so your interpretation may well be correct, but when I read the words he said, I wonder how it is really different than the opposing coach's compliment.
How do you know the official didn't mean something similar?
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The kids. They smelled it, they called it. No one was mortally wounded by it, they just thought it was a little patronizing. I think high school kids are super-attuned to phoneys and patronizing. It's not so much the words but tone of voice and whether you are acknowledging them when you are saying it or just talking like they aren't there or they don't understand English.
I realize that it must look like I'm giving a pass to a coach and nailing an official so here's a worse thing that a coach has been doing for a couple of years now. A private school has taken to mumbling nasty things to my players under their breath, I'm guessing to try to make my players lose control. It's been three years now and the things being said are mysteriously similar (from my players' reports) and always flirt with race without being totally overt. The coach has been the common denomonator. This continues despite the fact that it has never worked and actually backfired last year when one of my players was better at it and one of their players shoved him.
[Edited by bebanovich on Mar 1st, 2006 at 05:51 AM]