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I was working a BV game last night. Visiting team was 10-2 coming in -- this was non-conference -- and the home team was 12-1. Home team is a bigger school, playing in a bigger school conference and plays up in its nonconference games (except for last night).
The visiting team got smoked from the opening tip to the final horn. About midway through the first quarter, the visiting bench, unaccustomed to this, started chipping on every call against them. I noticed it was the assistants doing 95% of the talking, so I went over in that direction and told the head coach to control his assistants -- I'm happy to talk to them, but I'm not going to have assistants yelling from the bench. He tried to "yeah, but" me and I stopped him and told him that this was how it was going to be.
I will handle polite questions from assistants doing their jobs (whose ball is it, where's the inbounds spot, etc.) but I will not take crap or defend a call to them. I'll talk to the head guy all night long if I have to, but not the assistants.
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