First Time Varsity coach

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

JRut, again, get over yourself. I didn't ask you to change a thing. I gave my opinion on a comment you made. You made the big stink about it. It's funny if someone agrees with you they are one of "many respected officials", but if they disagree then they need to quick being so "hot and bothered" or other such nonsense you conjure up. Who said anything about getting run out of a gym? Where do you come up with some of your conclusions? Again, your comprehension skills are lacking.

I'm at the huddle for the 1st horn signal and an assistant makes a comment about "watching for hand-checking", depending on the day of the week, I'll either ignore it or say "the Head coach can ask me about it" and I move on. If the assistant asks an innocuous question I'll answer it. If the assistant makes a joke, even at my expense, I'll laugh at it. You're not the only one around here blessed with a the gift of gab and an engaging personality.

But I guess in JRut's world, if your opinion doesn't agree with the masses then that means you have a stick up your a$$. "The world doesn't revolve around my way of thinking", now that's funny, especially to anybody who knows me other than through the internet. You may find it hard to believe, but I deal with people all the time also. Spent 22 years in the military dealing with folks from all 50 states and a couple dozen countries and pretty much do the same thing now as a civilian. But I guess only folks from the Midwest can have a valid perspective on anything that happens in Illinois.

Come back down here to earth with the rest of us.

To me your post shows how insecure in your position you are. I told a story that I found to be funny. When you took on my position I told you along with others why I disagreed with your take, which not only I have the right to do, but you have the right to disagree with my position. Now you are going off on things that were not in the original post or about the topic. I am glad that you think you military dealings are the only thing important to everyone on this board. It is not to me, but thank you for giving your time and energy to a country that often lets people in your situation down. I did not include my life story in this post and in this thread. If you think I should not have said something to the AC the way I did, as I stated I will take that under advisement, but I have been doing this long enough that I can easily reject your advice because you were not there and you do not hire me for any games at any time. I guess some will say that it is arrogant to say something like that, but to me successful people do not listen to every Tom, Dick and Harry that gives an opinion. We are here after all to share opinions and to have discussions. That does not mean we all have to hold hands on every issue and agree with each other no matter how controversial the topic might be. There are some officials that off this board I respect tremendously, but I would not agree with everything they do. Maybe you are not removed enough from your service that you do not realize that in the real world people do not follow orders and only do what someone that feels superior tells them what to do. I guess if I agreed with you then everything would be alright with the world. I guess then I would not be in my own world (but let us also point out that others in this thread had no problem with the interaction as well). I guess sometimes people have to feel important by calling a bunch of names. I have not once said anything person towards you other than addressing what you choose to bring up. I will discontinue this conversation and you can go on calling me whatever you like to satisfy your needs.

Peace