First tossed coach of the season!

[egj13]

Well 12 games into my new home and it happened already...

BV game, visiting head coach had sat on the bench as the assistant during the JV game and was tolerable...but barely. I didn't even know he was the varsity coach at the time, just thought he was some blowhard JV assistant.

V game starts and from the first whistle he is irrate about something, all over all 3 of us for nothing. So at the end of the first quarter the foul count is 9-2..in this guys favor but he still isn't happy. My U1 calls a travel on his kid, and he starts in...2 plays later he is still talking about the travel call and now U2 is bench side. I see U2 tell him to settle before he gets the seatbelt and he starts in "you can't tell me to do that, who do you think you are?"...no serious, those were his words. U2 bangs him and the fireworks go off naturally. All 3 coaches are up in U2's face giving him "feedback". So I trot over to step in and get U2 out of the situation and about 5 feet out, coach turns and starts yelling at me and throws his hand in the air...I whacked him again. Hell U2 hadn't even reported the first T yet it happened so fast.

Part of me thinks I hit him a little quick but I was already thinking I didn't want to hear this fella for 32 minutes. So he made it about 11 of those 32 and then was escorted off the court...yeah he refused to leave. I mean it would have happened eventually but I had to assure my new pool-mates that I didn't make a habit of tossing coaches in the 2nd quarter!

Game ended up being a beaut though...the visiting team came back from 14 down in the 4th quarter and won it on a sweet turn around jumper from the baseline with 2 ticks left.

So I am curious though...and I know some of your answer from the seatbelt thread. In my last 3 associations/states, if you whacked a coach, you would report and then go administer the shots or take the C position to get away from the bench. When we discussed what happened at halftime yesterday U2 said "we probably could have avoided that if you hadn't come over." I admit I reacted out of habit but he wanted to stay and "let the coach talk" as he put it. Do any of you share this practice in your pools where you report the "T" and then stay there?