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Rut--I'll try not to drag this out much longer. Just one comment and one confession:
Why are you so close to the huddle that you can hear what is being said about anything? And if you are so close, are you going to give the coach a T if they are talking
about you and do not use any profanity calling you names? What if the coach is getting personal about you but talking to his players and not you?
First of all, I've never heard anything out of line in a huddle, so all of this, for me, is speculation. However, I'm close to the huddle while reporting the TO, if I'm passing information to the coaches ("Only 1 TO left, coach."), and if I'm getting the team out of the huddle when the TO is over. And sometimes you can not only hear the coaches from anywhere on the court, but also from the diner down the street!
If I heard the coach get personal about me to his players? Yep, I'd ring him up fast. If he's dumb enough to do that when I can hear, he deserves it!
Okay, the confession. Last night, I filled in for a 6th grade boy's game. A14 is a skinny, out-of-control kid having a rough night. He gets knocked to the floor--again. Barely audible, while I'm next to him, I hear "Shi..." He sees me before the 't' comes out to finish the word. I let it pass.
In retrospect, I should have either given him the 'T' or talked to him, because he pushed the edge of unsportsmanlike the rest of the game. He needed a lesson, and I missed the opportunity.
As fate would have it, I see these same kids tonight... I'm thinking I'll start with a captain's meeting!
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