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Had an interesting thing happen this past weekend. Thursday night in a tournament game, I ended up wacking a coach for too much refereeing. Friday, I spoke to another official who heard the T on the radio, and spoke to the coach about it Friday morning. Coach told him that he knew that he had received the T for too much refereeing and that even his wife had let him have it pretty good that night at home.
Saturday afternoon, I show up at the same gym, and when I arrived, it was the start of the 3rd quarter, and this same team was playing. Throughout the entire 3rd quarter, the coach was in his seat, coaching his players. As I got up to leave at the quarter break, I asked a couple of the officials if one of them had wacked him in the first half or something. They said, "No, what you did to him Thursday night changed him."
It gets even better.
When our crew came out onto the floor before our game, as soon as I had taken my position to observe the home team warming up, this same coach stepped up beside me. He told me that he wanted to apologize for his actions Thursday night, that he had gone home, thought about what he did, prayed about it, and was convinced that he was wrong. I accepted his apology, and that was the end of it.
Miracles never cease!
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