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Originally Posted by Bad Zebra
Had a 10U AAU coach that called time out to SCREAM at one of his players about one inch away from his ear. I made a comment to the table that I would never want him coaching one of my kids. My comment got back to him and he wanted a piece of me in the parking lot. Law enforcement called, but he went away quietly in the end.
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BZ:
Your story reminds me of two games: One involving a freind of mine and one invovling Daryl H. "The Preacher" Long and me.
Game #1: Years ago Daryl and I and a friend of ours from Tennessee (he was then and still is a Div. 1 women's official) were officiating in the Starters Girls Summer Classic in Hartford, CT. Our Tenn. friend had a game where in the first half both he and his partner whacked the HC of one of the teams, and he refused to leave the game. The HC actually took a folding chair from the bench area and sat down on it at center court. The HC's wife came out of the stands and tried to get him to leave and he slapped her,
, yes you read the correctly. Only then did two dads grabbed him and hustled him off the court.
Game #2: Years ago, Daryl and I had a girls' 13U pool play game on the first day of the YBOA Girls National Champ. Tourn. I was the U and all through the 1st quarter the HC of the one team just an absolute a$$hole with his players. He never swore at them but was very abusive to the verbally. Since YBOA provided an Official Scorer, a mother of one of the player's was sitting on the team bench keeping a scorebook for the team. Between the 1st and 2nd quarter I stood next to the mother keeping score and whispered to her that in my home state her HC would be charged with felony child abuse the way he was treating his players. She gave me the deer caught in the headlights look,
. I stepped away and as we put the ball into play I could see her say something to the HC. From my perspective it looked like his lower lip hit the floor but he never said a abusive word to his players the rest of the game.
MTD, Sr.