My New Strategy for Dealing with Complaints in Intermurals

[blindzebra]

Originally posted by dsimp8
Bradford...I don't deal with Intermurals but I deal with the next worst thing.......Church league men. The season starts tomarrow night. What I tell them at out pre-game huddle is " we are going to call the best game we can and you play the best game you can. We are going to miss some calls and you are gonna miss some shots . We aren't going to yell at you if you miss a shot, you don't yell at us if we miss a call."
I then proceed to give them their reminder that they are out here for exercise and fellowship with fellow Christians and we aren't going to have any negative talk. I used this for two nights during church league Sr High Boys and had no problems out of any of them. One of those teams was notorious for running their mouths and complaining to use. I did not hear one peep out of them.....and this was in the tournment.

I'd avoid using phrases like, "We are going to miss some calls."

Just tell them that sportsmanship is the rule and nothing else will be tolerated, and leave it at that.

The less you say the better in EVERY situation.

Set a threshold you won't allow to be crossed, and warn ONCE if a player is close and penalize if it's crossed.