Another "to T or not to T"

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by fiasco

Mark, I wish you were a tiny ref fairy I could fit in my back pocket to feed me one-liners throughout the course of a game.

Don't worry. My book will be out soon. In fact, it will come out on tape so you can listen to it during the game with your walkman (or whatever they're selling these days - I can't keep up).

The book will be entitled : "Victims Of Abuse - The Referee Story". It's a sequel to my first book, "Coaching For Dummies".

[TrojanHorse]

Where can I get Coaching for Dummies, I will take any advice I can get.

[deecee]

The only thing i hate about this is when the coach is right about the count or a call and I make it, not because he wanted it, but because it was the right call that I was going to make anyway.

Now instead of 1 PITA (pain in the a$$) you have the potential of the other coach crying about giving his opponent a call that he wanted.

[chartrusepengui]

Originally Posted by deecee

The only thing i hate about this is when the coach is right about the count or a call and I make it, not because he wanted it, but because it was the right call that I was going to make anyway.

Now instead of 1 PITA (pain in the a$$) you have the potential of the other coach crying about giving his opponent a call that he wanted.

This is where Padgett's "Coach - when you start counting like that it makes me lose count and I have to start over." comes in and you don't make the call

[fiasco]

I forgot to add that I felt justified in my decision when, as my partner and I were leaving the floor, the coach broke off from the handshake line to yell at me "That's why you're not varsity."

It took everything within my power to not turn around and say, "Well, coach, looking at the scoreboard, that's why you're not varsity, either."

[deecee]

Originally Posted by fiasco

I forgot to add that I felt justified in my decision when, as my partner and I were leaving the floor, the coach broke off from the handshake line to yell at me "That's why you're not varsity."

It took everything within my power to not turn around and say, "Well, coach, looking at the scoreboard, that's why you're not varsity, either."

A coach once said that to me and I responded with "looks like we are both in the same boat eh?"

Originally Posted by deecee

A coach once said that to me and I responded with "looks like we are both in the same boat eh?"

With an Irish accent?

[Jmuvol]

Hey Padgett...wasn't your first book "Coaching BY Dummies"?

But seriously, I have told a coach on 3 second counts that every time he yells at me, I loose count and have to start over.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by TrojanHorse

Where can I get Coaching for Dummies, I will take any advice I can get.

Just send me your debit card number and PIN. If you actually do that, then this is the right book for you.

[TrojanHorse]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Just send me your debit card number and PIN. If you actually do that, then this is the right book for you.

I think you need to come down here and give a clinic, people here take Basketball way too seriously. You and everyone here seem to have the right perspective about what high school and middle school athletics is all about. To many people get too wrapped up in this.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by TrojanHorse

I think you need to come down here and give a clinic

I'll be glad to do that. Just send me your debit card number and PIN so I can buy plane tickets.