Coach's Actions w/own Players

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by MechanicGuy

Would it be different, if in a time-out, the coach was screaming obscenities at their team? Loud enough for most fans to hear it, in this hypothetical. This falls into a similar "unsporting" grey area for a T to the coach, imo.

Verbal obscenities are shouted into the air, and if there's an audience, that affects them (a little). This was a shove that didn't affect anybody but the player who was shoved. If the coach had gone into the audience and shoved someone there...hmmm....

In football practice when players don't respond to my instructions as coach to put their feet where I'm pointing, I've picked them up by the armpits and moved them like chessmen. A fellow coach told me later that some parents would find that disrespectful.

I think I might've started that when, in a scrimmage (house ball) one of the officials (staff), thinking to help, did that to our player to get him more directly behind center. I then went out on the field to move him back, same way. I hate when officials think they're helping by repositioning my players from one legal position to another.