Dealing with coaches...

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Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Why don't you protect your less experienced partner and not permit the coach to abuse him? After "enough abuse for the crew" the coach doesn't deserve a warning, he deserves a T.

You should certainly not instruct an inexperienced official to tell a coach to stop. That is something which a veteran should do for his newbie partner.
Unfortunately, you still aren't ready to lead a crew.

I prefer to lead by allowing the less experienced the opportunity to deal with this issue themselves. If they show that after instruction they cannot handle the situation then I can step in. We are not dealing with infants but adults, and I remember when I was new and partners just jumped all over doing whatever they thought or wanted to it annoyed me. I would rather have been instructed as to what the proper way to handle a situation was and given the opportunity. Of course if a coach is so belligerent then by all means my partner could step in, and I would appreciate a, "I did that because..."

We all lead in different ways. You, I can guess, lead by a dogmatic approach of I am right and everyone else is wrong. I am happy that works for you.