[zebraman]

Originally Posted by mick

I use assistant coaches if they are nice.
...Shake hands with 'em and everything before the game just like they are regular people.
Sometimes they are the only ones looking when I tell 'em, "First horn."
Sometimes I answer their questions during a dead ball walk-by.
Sometimes I ask them to remind the head coach where the box is.

They don't have poison ivy or sumthin', ... do they?

That's about how I treat em' too Mick. Works for me. Sometimes I even tell them that their team is out of time-outs so I don't interrupt the H/C when he is talking during a time-out. They can be useful little buggers at times.