Come backs for Coaches

[Y2Koach]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Whenever a coach wants to dispute my interpretation of a rule, I tell him that I have a rule book in my bag and we can look it up. If he's right, I'll give him ten bucks, but if I'm right, he has to go out into the parking lot and wash my car.

I've never had a coach take me up on this yet.

I do the same thing, but I'm a coach. and I HAVE had officials take me up on it, but I've found that officials really hate it when I'm right, and use a rule book to prove that I'm right. I actually got a technical foul several years back for showing my players on the bench a rule in the rulebook that the official just kicked (point of interuption after a double foul), and the official gave me the technical foul because I was "undermining his authority". I replied "your lack of knowledge of the rules undermined your authority" and then followed it up with "are you thinking about if what I just said deserves a second technical? go ahead, take your time."

I've matured since those days, haha.