[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by nevadaref

i'm glad. That's the intelligent route to take.

As for some of the silly things that coaches do at summer camp...

Working the championship game between two teams which had played earlier in the weekend with white winning. This time blue starts out well and is ahead by double digits. My partner has penalized white for traveling three times. I'm the lead tableside and the ball is on this side of the court near the sideline below the ft line extended. Player for blue takes a jab step with his non-pivot foot and then does a cross-over step with this same foot followed by quickly lifting his pivot foot, but not putting it back down, and striding in the same direction as the cross-over step in order to get a better angle when throwing a pass to a teammate near the top of the arc.

The coach says to me, "you have to call that."
me: "call what, coach?"
coach: "a travel."
me: "he didn't travel, coach."
coach: "i know that, but your partner has called three travels against us already, and you have to get one against them."
me: "sorry, coach, i wasn't aware of that rule."
coach: "you don't have to be a smart@ss about it."
me: "i wouldn't be, if you weren't being a dumb@ss about it."