What should happen?

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Originally Posted by slow whistle

Hasn't anybody ever "walked" a coach back to the box perhaps with a hand on the lower back (not a push!)? Hasn't anybody been near a coach and he might touch you on the elbow as he asks a question, etc? This whole idea about "what gives him a right to touch me!?!?!?!" is obviously fueled by the coach being overly emotional following a tough game IMO....granted as a general rule, don't touch anybody on the floor, but my point is I agree with other posters here, let the guy cool off, talk to him the next day and see if he still feels the same way. To me it isn't the "touching" that is the big problem here, but patting somebody on the head is pretty degrading - that is probably what peeved him more than anything...

Well put. I tend to agree that the pat on the head was probably a bit demeaning to him, and certainly uncalled for. In either case, his best bet should've been to let his AD handle it with the league assignor, or perhaps a call to the state atletic board.