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Originally Posted by tomegun
Be nice...until it is time not to be nice.
One of my friends, and partner last night, told the coach to get back in his box last night. The game was stopped to do this and it became a big production. As the crew chief (we have crews - the association is basically divided by ten) this is something I do not endorse.
One of the officials in the game before mine (also on my crew) ran by a coach and said, "If you do_______again, I'm going to hit you with a T." The coach heard, "If you do_______again, I'm going to hit you." Poor choice of words for sure.
In both situations I would ask the coach a question that would likely start with "Please".
Be nice...until it is time not to be nice.
RIP Patrick Swayze
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I know that my way of dealing with a coach at any level is to walk him back and say something like, "Could you please work with me and stay in the coaching box" or something non-threatening...if I need to deal with it later, I will, but it's not my goal to be antagonistic. I will be when the need arises, but my goal is to avoid (and hopefully keep the coach from) going from 0 to Defcon 5 in a short period of time.