Are Coaches Crazy?

[Terrapins Fan]

Girls JV last night....Home team has 7 players, visitors 12. Home team looks bad in warm ups. Visitors, look good, they are tall & athletic. Game starts. Home team takes the lead, 2, 4, 5...1st quarter 5 points. Visitors can handle the press, but the press is putting the home team in fould trouble. Half time Visitors down 10. Visitor coach is beginning to complain and he is very loud. It's a small gym. 3rd quarter starts with home team on a 12- 2 run. Visiting coach removes all his starters and puts in 5 subs, most of which were much shorter than the home team, I am talking 5' , 5'2" very short. Home team streches the lead to 30 and no sign of the starters coming back. We're in the 4th quarter not and the coach is complaining about EVERYTHING. He wants a "T", he is begging me for a "T" on one play, he asks " how was that not a welk?" so, I go to him and explain that the player can lift the piviot foot without walking. He is screaming at me over and over....I knew what he wanted and I wasn't giving it to him. No matter what was going on, he was screaming and complaining. There wasn't a person in the building that could not hear him. Final score they lost by 32 points.

Would you have given him the "T"?

In that state, if you are tossed ( and that's what should have been done) they loose 3 games pay and can't coach the next 2 games. That had nothing to do with my decision not to "T" him. In some of the comments he made to me, he refered to the high school I attended and that was why I sucked as a ref and several other comments. My partner agreed, he wanted it and not giving it to him was better than giving it to him.