Kicking myself this morning

[Junker]

I'm just venting a little, but last night I should have ran the home varisty girls coach that we had. He was a pain in the rear before we even had him on the bench and got worse as the night went on. Here's the story, I'll try to keep it short, but like I said, I'm a little frustrated that I didn't run him.

JV/V girls double header at a school I've worked once before and had a great night. Things were rolling along, both JV coaches were a little chippy, but nothing that really needed to be addressed. At halftime, my partners tell me that the head varsity coach, who's standing in the corner, is complaining about the way they are calling the game. I tell them that we need to warn him and have him removed if he continues. Second half starts and mid-way through the 3rd a home player is trapped and doing everything she could possibly do wrong with the ball, eventually it ends up behind her head, I call a jump, and the H player goes to the floor hurt. I beckon the JV coach out and before she can attend to her player, she proceeds to complain about how "horrible" it was that her player could get knocked to the ground without a foul. I call that easy T. A little later, I call a block on a H player and she turns and throws her hands up right in my face, another easy T. A few minutes later, I end up over by the varsity coach who is on the bench during a dead ball. He asks me, "Bad hair day?" And I reply, "No, I was just addressing unsportsmanlike conduct that was happening on the floor." He proceeds to complain about the way we're calling the game so I reminded him nicely I thought, that he was now on the bench as an assistant and we would not be listening to him for the duration of the game. The JV coach came out and apologized for her actions and her player between games. Nice gesture, but I told her it was just part of the game sometimes, unfortunately.

So, the Varsity coach is on us from the tip. Admittedly we gave him way too much rope. I didn't really want to be the one to call the 3rd T of the night, but late in the 3rd, I'd had enough and I told my partners as much. I told them that I was going to try to stay away from him for the remainder of the game as much as possible. About a minute later he gets his T from one of my partners. I rotate over to get him on the bench and such and he calmly tells me he thinks we're doing a bad job. I respond, "Coach, you can think whatever you like, but from now on I'd suggest you don't voice that opinion." and leave. We got through the rest of the night.

Later, I found that the guy leads the league in T's every season (no kidding ). I wish I would have ran him when he complained about our bad job after his first T. I feel bad that any other crew is going to have to go in and put up with him when he acts that way. Maybe a suspension would have made at least a bit of a point with him. So, I'm kicking myself today. I think I handled it OK, but I really feel like I left one out there.