Player ejection and coach response

[HokieUmp]

Originally Posted by Rich Ives

You didn't get it. Figures.

It was about losing sleep agonizing over a call.

You think coaches don't agonize over their decisions that went south?

You don't get 10% of the grief coaches get. The get it, depending on their level, from some combination of players, parents, league officials, school officials, the press, the TV talking heads, their barber, the convenience store clerk when they go in to buy their beer to cry in, and Billy's Grandmother. Coaches get fired for making too many bad decisions - you just move on to your next game.

Then they see in the news that a supervisor of officials put a bounty on a coach - "in jest" he said - and didn't even get a wrist slap. Dash posts that you should find a way to dump the coach in the OP every time and Ozzy agrees. Vendetta time? Wonderful!

And you think the coach is the one who is out of line?

Yes. Yes, he is.

While your "man the ramparts" speech here is just terrific, it's also about 98% irrelevant. And the Pac-10 reference is the worst part of the irrelevant. Different sport, different level, just .... different.

FFS, Rich - you're on an officials board. Like you ALWAYS are. And yet you're shocked - shocked! I say - when the opinion runs against coaches. Like you ALWAYS are.

Since you want to point out the differences between coaches and officials, let's point out one that's relevant to the OP: officials usually are restricted from media access, while coaches are not. So they can talk to anyone that will listen about what the umpire "said." And it will be reported as fact, even when it's usually not. (And any retraction will end up in 6-pt font on page C-4 a week later.)

In short: waaah.

(And for those that want to cut the coach a break by saying that a reporter hears what (s)he wants: if the OP is correct, the coach was quoted. To me, that keeps the coach more on the hook, since quotes generally mean that's EXACTLY what he said.)