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Originally posted by Lotto
One of the local girls modified (junior high school) coaches is constantly carping out loud with the usual stuff---"I can't ever get a call," etc. (At the last game I had with her, she complained to my partner about the fouls being 4-2, not realizing that it was the opponents that had 4 and that her team had 2!) None of the individual comments are profane or personal enough to get any kind of attention, but cumulatively, it's too much. My question: what's the best way to deal with this? I have her again in a week or two and I want to have a game plan.
Thanks!
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First of all, any coach who complains because the foul count is 4-2 is too ignorant to be out in public without supervision. Then she cemented that diagnosis if she didn't even know which side of that count she was on. You can either just consider the source and treat her like the wind blowing, as long as the comments stay clean enough, or you can give her a simple warning: "Coach, you need to coach your team and let us call the game. Thank you."
Then whack her when she opens up again. If that doesn't shut her up, the second one will.