Last Night During High School Boys Game

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Originally Posted by mightyvol

I pulled the Head Coach aside right before they went down for halftime and told him that I wasnt appreciative of all the gesturing and talking that was going on with his players during the first half. I told him to pass the word on to the kids and that if myself or my partner heard another word in the 2nd half it was an automatic T. Well, when we came back out to start the 2nd half....he meets me at the scorers table and said...."We(coaching staff) lit their ***! We could sense the frustration from them and we are glad that you took a stance." Has anyone else had this type of situation occur, and if soo how did you handle it? I am sitting here questioning myself about the way I went about this. It must have worked, because the kids were more respecitve the rest of the way.

Mightyvol

Glad to hear it worked for you, but IMO approaching a coach like that has a better than 50/50 shot of ending up causing you more problems than it does helping you...if he is frustrated about anything at that point, you coming up to him with that is liable to set him off and cause you to end up with a dilemma of whether or not you end up teching HIM..I see something from the coach like "Well if you guys would do your job they wouldn't be gesturing!"....if you are having problems with players, address it with them, give them/the captain a warning if you see fit and/or just issue the tech...again, just my opinion, like I said glad this worked for you, but this could have been bad....that said, if you have a relationship with the coach this has a better chance of working out well...