VC coaching in stands...

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by deecee

Why should coaches be held to a higher standard?

A coach, who coached the 4:00 p.m. freshman game, hangs around and watches my varsity game, and yells at me, yells things that would have earned him a technical foul, maybe even an early shower, in his freshman game, but things that would not normally, or usually, get him thrown out of the gymnasium as a "regular" fan. I can't imagine my assigner, his athletic director, his school principal, or our state interscholastic sports governing body, not wanting to somehow deal with that coach. All these people, in my opinion, would hold him to a higher standard, I'm just not sure that the NFHS, and the officials that officiate under those rules, would, or should, hold him to the higher standard as well.

[deecee]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

A coach, who coached the 4:00 p.m. freshman game, hangs around and watches my varsity game, and yells at me, yells things that would have earned him a technical foul, maybe even an early shower, in his freshman game, but things that would not normally, or usually, get him thrown out of the gymnasium as a "regular" fan. I can't imagine my assigner, his athletic director, his school principal, or our state interscholastic sports governing body, not wanting to somehow deal with that coach. All these people, in my opinion, would hold him to a higher standard, I'm just not sure that the NFHS, and the officials that officiate under those rules, would, or should, hold him to the higher standard as well.

I would inform their AD and my assignor of this and let them adjudicate penaltie(s). I will not.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by deecee

I would inform their AD and my assignor of this and let them adjudicate penaltie(s).

So you inform your assigner, and the athletic director, whenever a fan yells at you, but not something so outrageous that he is asked to leave the facility? Sounds like a higher standard to me.

[deecee]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

So you inform your assigner, and the athletic director, whenever a fan yells at you, but not something so outrageous that he is asked to leave the facility? Sounds like a higher standard to me.

No I do not and I wouldn't care for a coach either. I was responding to your post. You want to deal with this yourself and I am saying I would not touch it. If I were to touch it I would do it how I said I would.

But I don't care. He's a fan. I will remember his chicken sh1t antics and if I get him again he won't be given much rope before I let him know I've heard enough. But if a coach was really that under my skin I would sooner recuse myself of his game than have my objectivity clouded.

[BillyMac]

Fans, cheerleaders, parents, teachers, baseball coaches, players from other basketball teams, even mascots, I can deal with, or ignore. Bottom line, unless they going to act like a mime, coaches don't belong in the stands. Not much, other than contacting my assigner, who will contact the athletic director, that I can do. Coaches don't belong in the stands, they belong on the bench. It's a lose, lose, situation. Nothing good can come from it. And if he's coaching from the stands, it's an advantage that really isn't fair to the other team that is keeping all their coaches on their bench.

[deecee]

Billy, can we agree to disagree on this?

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by deecee

Billy, can we agree to disagree on this?

No, because I think that we agree. You're contacting your assigner and the athletic director. I'm contacting my assigner, who, in turn, will contact the athletic director. Since we're both not doing this for the "regular" fan who gives us grief, but not enough to get ejected from the gymnasium, then we're both holding that coach to a higher standard than the "regular" fan. Voilà. Agreement. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

[BigT]

Originally Posted by deecee

Billy, can we agree to disagree on this?

I prefer you two disagree. I learn a lot more.