TX-Husker,As we all know, all coaches, assistant coaches, referees, umpires and officials are or should beyond approach and must display total professional personalities at all times while in contact with their peers, especially during practice sessions and game times, every sport has a coach, parent, player, official and spectator codes of ethics and rules which must be covered during a pre-season meeting so all persons involved are aware of how important they are and that they must be abided by without question, people who act as the person you mentioned acted violated every aspect of any sports code of ethics and should be dealt with accordingly, all youth and/or young adult sports or other organizations in particular must have high standards, if not we are sending out the wrong message to our young people, As parents, teachers and coaches etc. we help mold the lives of our young and very impressionable people.I think that that coach pretty well summed the coaching situation by being totally immature and walking off,if they didn't play up to his expectations then he needed to teach them how to play better, he simply is blaming them for his childish,uncalled for attitude which certainly was and is not needed under any circumstances, if your board members allow this kind of behavior from their coaches etc. I would have very little respect for them,I was involved with a similiar but a more serious youth hockey situation the season before last,I no longer have any respect for them after the out come of their decision of the incident, I have higher standards than they do on these types of violations and I no longer have enough respect for them to still be affiliated with them. There are absolutely no excuses for his behavior and none should be allowed, our young people deserve much more than what yours received, No if's, ands, buts, or, at least he didn't do this or that, I rest my case.
Don Ervin.
kom_ervin@yahoo.com