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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
Maybe you can get away with stuff like this in low-level rec league games with daddy-coaches, but I'd be awful careful of trying it at any higher levels. And if you do, you'd better know your audience.
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Agreed. Keep yourself amused by keeping such comments in your head. The situation is better served with a respectful explanation than a comeback. You'll be better appreciated for it, too.
Besides, since this coach was operating on a rules myth, it's likely he's been teaching his kids this same myth, and he may have developed a strategy around it. ("If Johnny can't get the ball in-bounds to you, get out of bounds. You'll have five seconds, too.") We've all had moments where we were dead wrong about a rule myth. It's better to coax someone out of the myth than to yank them.