Dealing with a carping coach

[rockyroad]

The main thing to keep in mind here is whether or not the coach is distracting you from doing your job. Some officials can simply ignore this kind of behavior, others can't...anytime the carping and harping and whining begins to distract you from the game, tell the coach that: "Coach, I can't listen to you and concentrate on the game at the same time. I can do one or the other. Which do you want?"...always works for me (so far)...if they won't stop, then take care of business and be done with it...you have to decide at what point the distraction becomes too much for you...