Your thoughts please.

[Junker]

An 8th grader? I'd give him at least 1 T, quite probably 2. They have to learn somewhere. Let whomever is in charge of the touranment know exactly what happened and move on from there. I wouldn't bother with the coach at all. I assume this is some sort of weekend travelling team or AAU. These coaches are often whomever has the time to drive the kids to the games. They usually do not understand the relationsip between officials, players and coaches. I wouldn't let what a child said to you bug you all weekend. You are right. he is wrong.

[Mark Padgett]

I would have gone up to the coach after the game and said, "You suck". When he started to react, I would interrupt and say, "Coach, I was just telling you what your player said to me at the end of the game. Now, I think you should say to him everything you were going to say to me."

Also, I would have made sure the player got grounded until he was 21 by his parents, became disqualified from ever getting a drivers' license and had all his scholarship offers withdrawn. I'd also make sure he had to share a room with his sister and be forced to go to Barry Manilow concerts.

There - that should be enough punishment.