Comebacks

[Richard Ogg]

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Originally posted by jackgil:
What I find works is to give the coach some coaching advice. E.G. "Coach, go to a zone instead of man" "Coach, don't run that play it isnt working" "Coach, a 2-3 zone defense works better against their offense" Pretty soon coach will respond with something like "Don't tell me how to coach" to which I reply "and don't tell me how to call the game".

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The problem with this approach is that in elevates the confrontation between you. You just eliminated any possibility of working together.

Something that has been suggested to me is "Give me something specific, coach. What are you seeing?" Sometimes the simple "Ok, coach, I hear you" can help.