my first coach T in two years, yuk

[devdog69]

Doug, this is a problem area that I saw all day yesterday too. Had a JV tournament and several times the "assistant coach" was up off the bench either coaching or arguing calls. I just don't tolerate it from the assistant and in my case I got it stopped before they caused a problem. At the first opportunity, I went to the "head coach" and said "coach, your assistant can't be up off the bench for any reason during a live ball, help me out please". I usually give it a laugh and smile because everybody knows that now I've got some first year timid, new assistant telling the head varsity coach to have a seat. In your case, I believe when he said "did that make you feel better", I would have taken that as a personal remark and given him a second and removed him. I know that is a move that we all hate to make, but you were clearly justified in the first technical, and he was clearly out of line in the second comment. I don't think you would have any problems getting backup on this situation. Otherwise, sounds like you handled it well, nice job.