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Originally posted by tomegun
BNR, I have yet to work with someone big enough or mean enough to not ask them WTF were you doing "consoling" (that is what it looks like most of the time) that coach after I gave a T. Call me crazy. 
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I've never consoled a coach after a "T". I have politely directed them to take a seat for the remainder of the game (high school). I did on one occassion have a coach who was still upset when I came over to seatbelt him after my partner T'd him (one of those ABS technicals) and I told him this "Whether or not you think WE missed a call, getting a 'T' in this situation didn't help your team". Coach quietly sat down and we didn't have a problem the rest of the game.
But just b/c a coach has been T'd up doesn't mean I'm gonna turn a deaf ear to what he has to say the rest of the game. And I am a proponent of using communication skills to de-escalate situations. If I 'T' a coach and I see my partner talking to him/her immediately afterwards I assume my partner is just trying to calm the coach down and get him/her to his/her seat. I think nothing of it. But again, I'm the trusting sort.
[Edited by BadNewsRef on Mar 10th, 2006 at 05:10 PM]