Coaching Staff Decorum

[refinks]

There is (or should I say was, as he resigned after last season) a varsity girls coach in my association that was.. let's just say... not a very cordial guy when it came to officials. A bit of a whiner, and a lot of technical. Got kicked out of a few games in his time at this school.

Anyways, long story short, was working a girls JV game one time. Girls JV coach for this school (who is now the varsity coach, and well deserved) and I have always gotten along great. Saw the varsity coach sitting one row behind the bench during the JV game and figured it was going to be a long game. Throughout the first half, I heard the varsity coach doing some coaching, and some minor questioning of calls (Did he really call that a foul, I think that was a travel, things like that). Calmest I'd seen him in a while.

Second half, 2 man crew. I'm trail, partner is lead. Partner calls a foul that quite honestly, wasn't a foul, but as a good partner, I back my partners all the way even when I know they've kicked a call. As soon as the call is made, before I could even get 2 steps from where I was standing, varsity coach stands up and says loud enough for me, but not my partner to hear "And that's why he's a JV official." I stopped dead in my tracks, turned right to the coach, "Whack". JV coach just dropped his head and sat down, because he, unlike his varsity coach, knew the situation.

Needless to say, the varsity coach was ticked off. Told me "you can't do that, I'm a fan this game, not a coach, you can't T me, you and your partner are pathetic, etc etc." I admit I did something that I shouldn't have, when I told the JV coach, "How would you like to coach varsity tonight?" Then pointed at the varsity coach. "Whack, get out, your night is over."

Now that was a fun report to fill out and send into my state association. Varsity officials hadn't arrived yet, but when they did, I told them about it. They all seemed to think I handled it exactly the way I should have, except I probably didn't need to ask the JV coach how he felt about coaching varsity. But... they did get a kick out of it, as this particular crew had problems with this varsity coach in the past, so they did say it was a little bit of sweet justice.

What say you guys?