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Originally Posted by Dan_ref

If we do it my way coach B will have learned something and he or she will never, ever make this mistake again (I'm assuming even the coaches in your neighborhood are somewhat trainable). If we do it your way you are depriving coach B of a chance to actually become a reasonably alert and emotionally mature adult who knows and understands basketball.

Well, not necessarily. Those are two possible outcomes, but certainly not the only possible ones. Yea, some coaches in my area are trainable, but there are others....

At the level of ball you work, I agree with you completely. Even the 9th grade tournaments you do are composed of teams with coaches, players and parent who study the game, work at their craft and hope to keep moving up the ladder.

But you must remember back to the beginning (I think you started during the Eisenhower administration?!?) that there were some coaches who were just clueless and and equal number of scorekeepers who were the same. Those of us who flounder around in the ranks of the uninitiated have to try to be as humane as possible in working with very unskilled and uninformed folks. In this kind of situation (OP), I'll almost always get both coaches together in the hearing of the score person and let everyone off the hook the first time. Some coaches learn a little from that kind of treatment, too.