Mon Mar 13, 2006, 10:54pm
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: East Westchester of the Southern Conference
Posts: 5,381
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Originally posted by bebanovich
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Originally posted by 26 Year Gap
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Originally posted by mrgusb
I think only Dave30 (and possibly 1 other)"got my point".
1. I'm not looking to sway the refs.
2. I am an excellent coach, mentor, and role model.
(Thanks much to chap using the term "dumb").
3. I did not imply that I didn't care about the other kids.
4. Again, if a ref. allows the game to get physical and does not call (intentional) fouls....it is the ref. that sets the tone.
5. If the ref. calls all (intentional) fouls, the teams (if well coached) should learn to control themselves (unless the other team is a lousy on the line...joke).
Chaps, I've been disappointed at the mentality behind the responses here....I sense once the "stripes" go on there's a "holier than thou" attitude! (I've heard this from coaches in other leagues...)
OBTW, about my game.....I said nothing to the refs.....since it was a Final, they called the game exceptionally well. By calling most every intentional foul they saw, they kept the physicality and the potential for escalation down to a minimum.
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OK. You're back and I don't want anyone else to speak for me. First of all, I am a coach, so my perspective is a little different than many here. I said I thought it was an inappropriate question not because I thought you were trying to gain an unfair advantage. I'm going to take you at your word that your goal was a relatively clean game and not start parsing your words 1-by-1. I don't think it's appropriate to ask how to help anticipate that officials are not going to be calling a game well.
Some unfair assumptions have been made about your intentions and your qualifications, but built into your question was a scenario that did not allow the officials the benefit of the doubt for calling the upcoming game fairly and correctly. Trust me, you're getting off relatively easy.
I have seen what I thought was a relatively masterful attempt at a pregame conversation. When I was an assistant coach we had a great team with a 6'2" center who had a very old-fashioned game that drove opponents nuts. He had a great show-and-go move that would have made Pete Newell weep but he was being called for travel about 50% of the time. Before a playoff game, the head coach brought me and the center over to the officials and asked them to help settle a bet. He said his stupid assistant (me) thought this move was a travel but that I was just too young to remember the greats. Then he had the kid demonstrate the move and got the officials to concur that it was not travel. "You owe me $20," he said to me for effect. I thought it was genius but the first time the kid made the move in the game - tweet.
There just ain't a way to do it.
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Did you get the $20 back?
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That part was a bluff. He knew I didn't have any $20.
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Well, at least the whistle took the pressure off...in case you ever came into some money...
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