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Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle
That's just precious. A coach lecturing us about the virtues of just ignoring the jerks. You'll have to excuse me if I seem a little jaded on this subject. But when it comes to youth, rec league basketball, my experience is that most of the jerks are found standing in the coaches box. Ranting. Raving. Waving their arms and stomping. And if you ignore that jerk, the crowd starts feeding off his bad behavior, and so do the players.
But hey, I'll sleep better now knowing that as long as I don't act like a jerk, everybody will respect me for just ignoring him.
Get a life.
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I worked a varsity game tonight and the visiting team was getting thumped after hanging in for the first half.
Visiting team called their fourth timeout, and I walked over to the huddle to let the coach know he only had one left.
When I got there I got this: "How could he call a travel on that play? And what about three seconds at the other end? And they double dribbled on the last possession? And my girls are getting hammered?"
All before I could get a word out. Finally, I said, " You have one full time out left and we aren't going to be looking backwards so you may as well leave the past in the past and look forward." And I walked away. Once he realized I wasn't going to engage on this, he stopped. Ignoring him? Yeah, that would've worked well.