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Originally Posted by BayStateRef
At the next dead ball, I tell the man that only he can stand. He tells me that they are "co-coaches." I say they can be whatever they want, but for this game he is the head coach and only he can stand.
Next time down the court, I am the lead, and I see she is standing and coaching. I call a T on her -- as the assistant standing. When I get to the table, my partner and the man greet me. The man says that she is the head coach today and she will stand. He said he explained that to me when I talked to him earlier...I said that he had taken every action possible to prove he was the head coach and for this game, he was the head coach. My partner called me aside and asked me to reconsider the T. Now I feel stuck. The rule, case book and point of emphasis all back me. She was not saying a word to me...she was coaching the players. But now I am told that she is the head coach and I can't penalize a head coach for coaching from the coaching box. So I take the T back. The home coach doesn't like it, but he accepts the explanation....the T was for the assistant standing, but since she is not the assistant, she is acting within the rules.
At halftime, my partner gave me the "Don't go looking for trouble" talk. He may have been Old School for all I know. because he said exactly what OS said (if they are not screaming at you, ignore them...no matter where they are standing.) When I had that team a few weeks later, the man made a point of coming up to me during warmups and saying he would be sitting and she would be the head coach for the game ... but he also gave me the, "No one else has said a thing to us all year" line.
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First of all, when did I say that? You gonna have to prove that. Don't go putting words in my mouth.
I'm going to tell you what I would have done here. Once you issued the warning, then you followed that with the T in direct violation of your warning. It ain't coming back. That's my word, hopefully you will remember me saying that. Then again, if you been dipping into that kool-aid that MTD is passing around, that explains it. Afterwards, you turn around and tell them, you don't care who the HC is, niether one of you can stand now.
Now, you say this to your partner in front of the AC at that meeting. Sorry partner, I gave them a warning. Just keep repeating that everytime they say something, I gave them a warning! Who's shooting!