dealing with coaches

[zeedonk]

7th grade boys travel over the weekend. Tight game with lots of fouls. Second half opens with 3 consecutive fouls against Team A. Coach A calls time out and starts with "forget about the refs", which to that point was OK, then I hear him say "they don't want you to win", which is a different matter entirely.

Time out ends and the kids come back onto the court and I head over to Team A coach and say, "Coach please don't tell the kids that we don't want them to win- we don't care who wins and you know that. I don't want the kids to buy into that kind of nonsense". Coach says OK, but you just called all the fouls on us. I said "Coach you're right, we did just call three in a row on your team, but they weren't cheap ones, they were good calls."

Team A winds up losing by a couple but his comments didn't come up again...
Kept control of a game that easily could have gotten way out of hand.

Miller time!

Z