Vindictive Coaches

[Hawks Coach]

MTD
I am truly sorry for you if your experience everywhere is that coaches are generally bad. Coaches are all biased - we are supposed to be and freely admit it. Every coach, myself included, will dispute some calls, though I have many games where I have nothing that I feel needs to be contested. And we are not there to be your friends, we're there to coach a game with the intent of winning that game. That is our purpose, that and teaching a few lessons to our players along the way.

That said, I think it is a personal issue for you if you really find the majority of coaches to be difficult everywhere you go. I coach a travelling team, see lots of basketball on this coast, and that is NOT my experience. I also grew up in Illinois and have watched coaches there for years, continue to see games there every couple of years, and don't see a serious problem.

Bottom line - your blanket indictment of coaches (later modified to a near blanket indictment of coaches) tells me more about you than about the coaches in the games you ref. And I feel for you and those coaches, because your lack of respect for coaches can only have a negative impact on the games you ref. We are not supposed to be friends, we are not supposed to agree on everything, but we are not supposed to be adversaries either. At times you will find that you are at odds with a coach because of extreme behavior on his/her part. But if you find such situations occur in the majority of your games, you have some serious issues. And they are your issues, not the coaches' issues.