Maybe I should have walked him through it........

[Matt]

Originally Posted by waltjp

I've already dumped one coach and I'm not looking for any more trouble. I ignore it.

There's a difference between you looking for trouble and trouble looking for you. If trouble's heading your way, you need to be proactive and deal with it. If you use the logic that you used here, then the offending team actually has more leeway in its collective ability to be asshats because you are taking a passive, reactive approach to your dealings with it. Hardly fair to the team that's been acting appropriately.

I would go so far as to say that I take the polar opposite approach. If I've tossed someone during a given game, my tolerance for further inappropriate conduct decreases somewhat. What might have been a warning earlier now becomes an ejection. I don't go looking for confrontation, but as one of my favorite first sergeants said once upon a time, "I'm not looking to get a joe in trouble, but if you bend over and drop your pants in front of me..." You can guess the rest of that sentence as to the figurative action to which he was referring. It's the same logic--I'm not getting rabbit ears, looking for boogers, or anything like that, but if a team that has already had some involuntary personnel changes continues to have visible issues, they will be addressed.