Coaches

[bainsey]

I know how you feel, stir, but these guys have it.

I recall one like you had a few years ago. Seventh-grade girls game, home team getting beaten by visibly better away team. (Jealously of this away town is very apparent, even at this level.) Home coach calls time out and proceeds to guterrally scream at her kids. It was well beyond any typical yelling, and was entirely unnecessary.

When the anger turned to my direction ("that's not a foul up here, but it is down there?!?"), she earned her ABS technical. It's my only coach whack to date (six years), and the only time yet an A.D. recommended my partner and I wait for the gym to empty before we depart.

Like you, I also pondered for a while. Should I have pointed out to the coach that she was gutterally screaming at 12-year-old girls? Would that be proper game management or interference? Would I have whacked the coach had not been over the top earlier? Most likely not. Usually such words will only get a stop sign. Still, the only way I can answer it is when such dissent is turned to my direction, and it did.