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Originally Posted by LIUmp
Side note: I had a coach one time call time and yell at me to BACK UP away from his DD, who he thought was too close to me in "B". So after he yelled across the field, I backed up - about 40 feet. When the call at first on the next play was safe, he came out to question. I said, "sorry coach, but I did my best to see it from all the way out here. I had to back up because a coach told me where I should go on the field."
He walked away angry but he understood his mouth caused the issue to begin with.
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Humorous, I guess. But I don't like to play those kinds of games with coaches. They only serve to raise the temperature on an already heated atmosphere.
I would have simply ignored him until he either came over to me in a more civilized manner, or until he crossed the line and gotten himself ejected.
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