Passed on a T yesterday, why?

[btaylor64]

Don't think, just whack especially while you're young. You get away with it on two levels. 1) the coach thinks your nuts and won't screw with you as much. 2) You're supervisor can back you by saying you are in fact young and your communications skills have not gotten to a great point yet.

That's where I'm at right now. I have given out quite a few T's and tossed 2 guys. By the end of the season, it will get around the coaches water cooler that I'm nuts and it will calm them down from yelling at me and we can then have more effective communication. It's just a big circle. Referee to your personality.

I will say this though. Be damn glad you didn't whack the coach after you went after him. It's ok for coaches to step over the line cause we then have the power to whack them or not, but when we step over, we have now taken our professionalism out of the way and we now have to let the coach step back over the line since you stepped over it. Just be cognizant of that. You handled it in your own way but when you do it like that, be prepared to take some heat back and not whack them.