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Originally Posted by JRutledge
This kind of situation never happened to me. Never had a coach ever make a point to say what happened in a game at that time before the contest. I did everything to be professional but did not know if I should have said other things.
What would you have done? Would you have even addressed it or come up with some other way to handle the situation?
Peace (Sorry for being long)
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That's tough and there is no single simple answer. I had a weird one this year and I'll tell you what we did. D2, BV. 2-man state, work with regular partner. We ran this coach on a Tuesday at home. 2 direct T-s and one indirect (2nd direct came after first 2). Not a very good team, about middle of pack. Partner t-'s coach for wanting a cary call on high dribble. Demonstrative with large arm circles. Told to stop, keeps on, whack. We get together, as P administers FT's, I talk. He says I can't do this and does it again. I say no, you are trying to show us up. Asst, gives me the waive off so wack #2 and since he's bench, indirect to coach. Coach has to sit remainder and on a PC foul call by P, HC throws clipboard down. Wack #3. I tell coach he needs to leave. He just sits down and doesn't say anything. I go to table tell them to get AD here. They already on phone. AD comes in and I tell her HC needs to leave. She goes over and he slowly packs up and continues to stare us down. I'm fine with that, he's the one looking like a-hole. Just adds to our report that he would not leave and had to e escorted out.
Anyway, we have him the next week again as Visitor. Don't believe he can see officials names because he doesn't host. First time he knows is when he sees us in civies in stands of JV game. He immediately comes over and apologizes for his actions. I really thought it sincere. We accept and said thank you and that was it. But I was wondering what was going to happen because he was big time jerk that night. We talked about it and decided we would not even address it and if he did, we were going to say that was a different night and was not personal for us. I don't think it would have mattered as whatever we did, I'm sure it would have been revenge on our part. We thought about turning it back but then he would have beat us. By accepting the game, we were making a statment. Feel we did it right and got the best possible result. He actually coached and his team won when they shouldn't have on paper. Hopefully he learned something. We did.