Great first post. Now, in the spirit of the forum, I'll add my thoughts. Take them or leave them.
My guess is he is not the normal varsity coach, since it's off season ball, so normal techniques may not work.
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I had the Championship game of a travel tournament Varsity HS boys age that turned into the game from hades. All because of the poor display of sportsmanship by one team.
Game was at the home teams high school which is a small 1A HS in the middle of no where. Visiting team is a large 4A. 2nd call I have in the game visiting coach is up and hollering about how a in air collision was ticky tack. Whatever.
We keep playing. He barks the whole first half. Nothing excessive, and nothing to warrent a T other than just constant whining over everything.
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Constant whining gets addressed, normally quietly while I stand next to him. "Coach, if you have an actual question, we'll try to answer if we have a chance, but we can't have you complaining about every call."
To me, this is best done during a throwin in front of his bench when you're heading the other way. It give him a chance to think about it.
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Partner and I answered his legitimate questions which were not many. At half we decide to let him continue as long as he didn't cross the line. First 30 seconds of the 2nd half he wants a handcheck at the top of the key as the guy passes the ball, no advantage or disadvantage. I am trail table side in front of his bench. He says to his team but loud enough for me to hear "were obviously not going to get that call here". I just shake my head.
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Assuming you've not addressed anything sooner, this is the point to give him his warning. He's just pushed the envelope of questioning your integrity, and it needs to be stopped here.
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My partner then makes a call, in his favor. Coach says to me "its a good thing he's here or we wouldn't get a foul call."
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This is where you should have rung him up, even without previous warnings.