Help, My Hardest Call to Make .......

[Paul in Seattle]

I also usually try to avoid T's, but this year I've heard something that will shift my perspective this year. It's a decent line to draw.

Is the coach doing/saying something that you could not do/say to the coach without consequences? If a coach tripped my anger and I said "You're pathetic!"...what would happen to me if my assignor found out? Yup...I'd be in deep. What if I gestured inappropriately? What if I said "You're terrible! you don't deserve to be coaching!" What if I encouraged the crowd to heap abuse upon him/her?

I can't get away with doing any of those things. The coach can't either. I think it's a decent question.

I called two last year...one coach was on the floor, and the other's persistent chirping was getting under my skin...so I gave him a warning, gave him a T when he didn't heed it, and he shut up...made my life easier.

I'll work on the box this year...try to nip it in the bud early. If we all enforce it, it'll be old hat soon.