About three weeks ago, I posted about a game in which my partner and I T'd a coach and tossed a player from a juco game. For anyone who didn't see the thread, it's:
http://www.officialforum.com/showthr...?threadid=6437
Anyway, had the same team last night and the game went without incident. Coach that was T'd approached me before the game and said, "What game did you work for us?" I told him it was the Clark game and he went back to his team. I think he recognized me, but couldn't remember when he'd seen me.
Before the second half, during halftime warmups, the coach walks across the floor from his bench slowly toward me. He says, "Did you write a letter to the board?" This threw me slightly, b/c to me "board" means my local IAABO board. I was confused, so I said no. He then tells me that somebody wrote a letter saying the officials were threatened. Finally (duh), the light goes on in my head and I apologize and say, yes I did write a letter, but it was to my assignor. He says, "I wish you'd come to me, b/c I don't want my players to behave like that".
In my head, I'm saying, "I wish you'd believed that during the game." But out loud, I told him that the proper procedure is to go through the assignor, etc. I told him basically what I'd put in the letter and why. Described the threats to him, etc.
We talked for about 3 minutes and he reiterated
* that he was running a good program and wouldn't tolerate that kind of behavior.
And as I said, the game finished without incident, other than a little more chirping (from both benches) than usual. Anyway, just thought I'd give you the end to the story. Kind of anti-climactic. Darn
Chuck
*If reiterate means to repeat, what does "iterate" mean? Nobody answered me last time!!
