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Originally Posted by blindzebra
Get in a corner and out comes the resume. 
Okay I have one too.
I do between 500 and 700 games a year ranging from youth to adults with current and former NBA players, tournament games where nearly every player on the floor is going to be playing D-1, and state semi and championship games, and this year I was asked to teach the new officials class.
So inexperienced officials by all means choose.
We learn to be better by our mistakes.
Go with thank you and do just that or listen to the advice that I and others gave you and use simple and direct words that make sense and handle problem coaches better. |
So are you actually saying that there is NEVER a time to say "Thank you" to a coach that is being a problem?? You can actually be that definitive about what someone else can use to defuse a tense situation?? Damn, you really are as good as your little resume makes you out to be...
Why not simply say "I don't use that because it doesn't work for me" and let it go at that...trying to tell inexperienced officials that it will never work is a little pompous, imo.
I used thanks on a coach this weekend and it worked just fine...coach says "Hey, 52 is getting pretty physical out there."
"OK, thanks coach."
"Oh, you're seeing it too? OK."
Sweet and to the point and everything worked out just fine and dandy.