7 year of commitment and now I'm a cheater?

[Coltdoggs]

Boys 5th/6th grade game Saturday in the league I have been associated with for 7 years...Served two years on their Board recently!

Coach already had one T from me for arguing a push on rebounding action in the 2nd Q. Obvious foul on his "A" player who crashed into two defensive players backs trying to get a rebound.

In 4th Q, after a held ball was given to the other team...I'm headed back down court in and as I pass him at the end of his bench closest to the table I hear "Don't cheat my kids!"

I let play continue at the other end as they were advancing the ball and luckily had a quick score to which I blew the play dead and approached the bench. I asked the coach if he would mind repeating his "cheating my kids" comment and asked if he was questioning my integrity?

To this I was met with him standing up face to face with me saying "I know you are mad at me but don't cheat my kids...you gave them the ball twice in a row!"

I calmly said to him "Coach, if I mistakenly awarded them the held ball twice, that is one thing that can be discussed but if you are accusing me of cheating we have a much larger issue at hand and you are done coaching today...."

He responded with some more talk about me cheating the kids and I asked him one more time was he accusing me of cheating to which he uttered the phrase cheating my kids again. So I tossed him in mid sentence...

Now, I keep a rubber band on my wrists in this league to keep me honest on the AP direction ...league doesn't have poss. arrow at table and score clock box doesn't have that either...) I very well may have forgot to change it...the other team might have had the last held ball in the 3rd Q and got the first in the 4th Q? I don't really recall....I'm pretty good about keeping up with it...

So the coach is gone for the next game (per the leagues following of the IHSAA rules) and he has to petition the board to coach again. Wasn't the first time I've had issue with this knucklehead

I guess I'm most pissed off at the fact I've given a lot of time to this league (unknown to him) the past 7 years...both on the court an off. For this dude to say something like that is outlandish. I guess the $25/game they pay us was just not enough

Ok...just wanted to share with some people who get it and ask you....How would you have handled. A volunteer parent working the score table told the Board Member on duty I let more than enough go....and perhaps I should not have even questioned it if I thought he said it....I think that's why I asked for him to repeat it cause I wanted to be damn sure. What would you have done? For the record, if that was his first T of the day, I would have ruled it flagrant and tossed him.