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that coach is a disgrace
and the really sad thing is there's far too many coaches just like him. Guys like this really shouldn't be coaching kids. I wouldn't let my kid play for him unless this example was something that only happened 1 time. I often wonder what these guys think they are teaching the kids who play for them when they behave past the line of respectability.
Basketball is a temporary thing (unless you coach or Ref), and a players career is brief. Personally, I don't even see the point in coaching youth, or HS age kids unless you use that perfect opportunity to teach the kids "life skills" along the way. This coach may be able to get talented kids to play well, but he's obviously completely whiffing at any attempt to teach his players about humility, and accepting responsibility, and losing with dignity.
I've only been coaching 5 years, but I've yet to see a call, or number of calls, cost us a game. Even when we lost, and I did believe there were "bad calls" I always tell my team, "we got beat by ______ ________, not by the Refs.
I was never so surprised at what people around me are capable of believing of others who they don't even know, until I started coaching and know what some coaches say about, and think about Refs.
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