What's an appropriate response to...

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Originally Posted by D-League

"How long have you been in the association?" (usually yelled by the losing coach after some marginal call)

I'm a big advocate of complete honesty with coaches, the truth is I'm not in any association and have only been doing it six months. But I'm not telling them that. Any suggestions?

The appropriate response would probably get you in trouble with the assignor

I like the "ignore him" approach...unless he has been yipping a while and you have warned him. If he has been warned before...WHACK (probably best to leave out the long enough comment).

[jTheUmp]

Ignore, unless it's time for an ABS Technical.

If it's not time for an ABS Technical, the amount of time required to reach an ABS Technical has now decreased quite substantially.