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Originally posted by Dan_ref
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Originally posted by chayce
Lotto,
You are on the right trail...a proactive approach usually seems to work best for me. I try the professional approach and say, "Coach, I know I will work a lot better if you are coaching your team instead of officiating. Now, let's both do our jobs and we will get along great."
You have been courteous, professional, and even given them a warning. After that, the choice is theirs. Of course, you must be willing to hand out the "T" if they choose not to participate in your plan.
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Ref: "Let's both do our jobs and we will get along great."
Coach: "I've been doing MY job, when are you gonna start doing YOURS??!!"
Now what? 
BTW, I think Lotto should warn immediately then T. As JR said, it's his choice to stop it or put up with it.
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If you've put yourself in this spot, then the answer to the above is a tech. I prefer to give the stop sign and either say that's enough" or "you're done" to tell the coach I want no more on that call. This lets everyone see that you have somehow addressed the coaches behavior before you issue a tech.
Of course I didn't follow my own advice in a rec league game Saturday. 5th grade boys, I call a foul where the defender locked arms with a shooter, pulling him around and causing a missed shot. Coach says loud enough for all 50 people to hear "That's a sissy call". Now, the score of this game is like 6 to 4 in the 2nd quarter, and I'm thinking that a tech would really hurt the kids worse than the coach, so I told him, from across the floor to sit down and be quiet that I didn't want to hear that from him again. He said "I don't have to sit down, why are you doing this?". I told him he needed to sit until he exhibited "good sportsmanship"
Shoulda whacked him and been done with it.