Stop Sign Not Considered Harmful

[blindmanwalking]

[QUOTE=Back In The Saddle]I have noted with some sadness the fad of bashing of the stop sign here. It's high time somebody stood up for this much maligned game management tool. I guess this makes me somebody
I'm not on a crusade to end the dialogue about when it's appropriate and inappropriate to use. I find that useful. What I find disturbing is the way that other "wanna-be cool kids" regularly pile on. I'm talking about snide comments along the lines of "Did you give him the stop sign, that would have fixed everything." Tomegun's comments certainly sounded heretical to begin with, but were aimed solidly at accomplishing a specific, useful end. But these pile on comments are nothing more than the moral equivalent of picking on the nerdy kid to try to appear to be cool too.

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Originally Posted by blindmanwalking

Did you give them... the STOP SIGN? This probably would have fixed everything.

Really, good job.

I guess I'm the guy that put you over the top. My apologies. It was an attempt at humor.

For the record, however, at the rules meeting I attended in my part of Illinois, we were told straight up to take the stop sign out of our arsenal of un-approved mechanics. Seems it might have been having opposite the intended effect in some cases.

[tomegun]

Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle

...thanks for helping make my game better.

Mission accomplished!

Sometimes people refuse to see the truth even when someone (Rut) makes it plain. If this game management tool is so useful, why do most of the stories on this forum end up with a T anyway. Just like I've mentioned before about applying the stop sign to a normal conversation off the court, think about something in normal life you would do to prevent something else. If doing A repeatedly did NOT prevent B, would you continue to do A?
I can understand doing something that will show up on film. However, most things the coach does will be obvious so it doesn't matter anyway.

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by tomegun

If this game management tool is so useful, why do most of the stories on this forum end up with a T anyway.

Perhaps because "I had this coach who was starting to get a little out of hand, but not enough to justify a T, so I gave him the old stop sign and he knocked it off" doesn't make much of a story. It kind of ranks up there with "I called the first handcheck and it cleaned up the guard play." Ho hum. Dog bites man. Good officiating, not much of a story.