"Stare at me all you want to..."

[rainmaker]

I thought of Mark Dexter on Friday night at a girls JV game I did. Coach B (see thread "Coaching Issues") was mad that his team was behind, and decided it was our fault. midway through the second quarter, he said to me, "You're calling a lot more fouls on us than them. Do you like them better?" This after we had just called two in a row on A, and A had 10 fouls, and B only five. I said, "Coach we call what we see." He said, "I think you've got a formula, three for us one for them." While his girl is missing two free throws. I put up my hand, and said, "That's enough." He \said, "Well, you just called one for them so now we get three more." WHACK!! I thought, "Well, perhaps, coach you were right, and here's the first of those three." I didn't say that!

About two plays later Coach B gets a time out. He walks out about to where the person who reported the time out would stand if it was a 30 second time out. and just stands there and stares at me. For almost the whole time out. There was no assistant coach. The poor girls were just huddled in the bench area with nothing to think about or do. I stood at the endline where I was going to inbound the ball, and tried not to laugh. And thought about Mark Dexter's signature line, "You can stare at me all you want, I'm not going to change my call."

Later I told my partner, "I'm not going to eject him, I don't want to do the paper work."