first T of the year

[rockyroad]

Originally Posted by mbyron

I agree with everything here, except for the idea that officials should be responding to anything an ASSt. coach says. I'm going to ignore it until such a coach is becoming a nuisance, when I'm going to ask the head coach whether he or she has a question, and then ask him or her to get the bench personnel under control.

And that would prove my original point - sometimes ignoring things MAKES them become a nuisance. Sometimes a simple response can defuse the assistant coaches and stop them from becoming a nuisance. Not always, in which case the head coach needs to take care of them, but sometimes it actually works - just look at it this way: how would you like it if you said something to someone at work and they just glared at you and ignored you. Would that make you think "Oh my, I'm only an assistant here and I should probably be quiet now" or would it make you think "Geesh. This guy is an a$$." and then you just step it up a little??