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Post by coach239 on Nov 27, 2006 9:47:32 GMT -6
Coaches, whats the craziest/funniest thing that you've done or saw another Coach do on the sidlines during a game?
I think in one of our games last year I called a time-out just to get the boys pumped up and excited after we got a first down......
We were stuggling offensively and we were in need of any momentum we could muster up. LOL! Looking back on it I am glad that I didnt need that time-out later in the game.
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Post by brophy on Nov 27, 2006 10:03:20 GMT -6
three years ago, we were getting just molested by the refs at an away game ...
Head coach is going off on the sidelines and is jumping up and down giving it to the refs. He gets a little too excited and splits his khakis right down the middle......thing is, he was going 'commando' that night....we had to stop everything and get him an extra jersey and a jacket to tie around his waist to spare the fans an extra moon for the evening.
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Post by coachcalande on Nov 27, 2006 10:14:36 GMT -6
Coach pulled a red card out of his pocket and showed it to the ref..."Go back to officiating soccer!"...funny in a way but obviously disrespectful. I am not a fan of coaches that make the refs job any more unpleasant.
Dumbest thing I ever did was read aloud from the rule book. Just a dumb coach at the time who didnt know any better. If I ever met up with those officials again, id apologize a million times over.
This year, the funniest thing between two coaches was when i made my kids do five pushups for jumping off sides, the other coach yelled at his guys "give me twenty!"...both teams in the middle of the field, refs and fans laughing as the kids were doing pushups. It was funny.
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Post by blb on Nov 27, 2006 10:19:29 GMT -6
Once asked the linesman, "How can you guys sleep with all these lights on?!"
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Post by groundchuck on Nov 27, 2006 10:36:02 GMT -6
At an away game I was verbally assulted and threatend by the chain gang. Can anyone top that? If you knew the town you would not think this was strange.
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Post by coachcalande on Nov 27, 2006 11:01:02 GMT -6
lol, i can relate....had a number of fans actually grab my shirt and coat hood as i was trying to get on our team bus. they were ticked at me because i had a 285 lb fullback. and of course we ruined their night game, perfect season etc etc.
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Post by sls on Nov 27, 2006 11:37:58 GMT -6
We got a penalty for being out of the coaches box and on the field. My DC goes nuts about it saying the other team is on the field.
I tell him to calm down and I go over to the official and say "Sorry, it won't happen again and that was the best call you made tonight"
He thought it was pretty funny.
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Post by lochness on Nov 27, 2006 12:07:51 GMT -6
We got called for having a back lined up in the Neutral Zone. A BACK...
When I asked how a back (he was a sniffer lined up directly behind the OT) could be in the neutral zone (particularly when he lines up behind the Offensive Tackle), and explained to the official that we have been running this formation for years without any incidents, I basically got him to admit that it was a wrong call.
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Post by fbdoc on Nov 27, 2006 12:11:00 GMT -6
Back in the day - not quite 20 years ago - we were beating a team at home pretty good. As we were getting the subs in I heard one of our own dads (the bleachers were right on top of the sideline) start to go off on one of my assistants that we should have had his kid in earlier. I went down and gently pulled my assistant away, and then got to hear this guy let me have it. I ignored it, and then, after the game as everyone was milling around on the field I hear this guy again. He's in the crowd about 20 feet away and just really baiting me ... I can tell you, if my assistants had not seen the look in my eyes we would have tangled right there! His parting shot was "I'll be waiting outside the locker room." By the time we got back inside I had cooled down a bit, but I waited another 10 minutes and told my coaches I was going outside and if I saw any off them in the next 10 minutes they would be fired! I went outside and waited, and waited. Never saw the guy, never heard him again, but boy, I was ready to go! Sometimes, you get lucky and don't do something stupid!
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Post by groundchuck on Nov 27, 2006 12:14:28 GMT -6
I had a dad start rooting for the other team. While his son...as a two way starter was on the field. Then he called me jack-ass. Our AD and several school personnel are standing right next to this dumb-moron and they do nothing to stop it. Glad to be out of that hole.
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Post by sls on Nov 27, 2006 12:28:36 GMT -6
I had a parent come up to our wreslting coach who is a football assitant and ask him, why I threw our playoff game?
This guy really thoguht I threw the game!!!
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Post by wildcat on Nov 27, 2006 13:24:14 GMT -6
Like many of you guys, I have been the recipient of the drunken-idiot-who-doesn't-have-a-job-but-was-a-high school-hero-20-years-ago fist fight challenge.
Had one of these clowns actually follow me home from a game about 6 years ago. I wouldn't fight the guy, so he went down to the bar and told everyone how I was a wimp because I wouldn't fight. Yeah...that's it...had NOTHING to do with that fact that I didn't want to sacrifice my livelihood by beating the crap out of some drunk deadbeat who can't hold a job.
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Post by smalls on Nov 27, 2006 13:34:13 GMT -6
A few years ago I was on the sidelines when our Quarterback keeps it around the outside and is heading for the sidelines right at me. Two defenders had him cut off and a pile of kids landed right at my feet. Assuming the play was over, I bent down to help up one of the defenders. All of a sudden the crowd went wild and I saw that somehow our QB had avoided the tackle and was heading down the sideline for the score. I dropped the kid flat on his back and stepped over him to chase the QB down the sidelines, then almost slipped and fell on my backside as I reached the end of the coaches box. Not my best moment, but we came back to win the game so who cares, right?
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Post by chiefscoach on Nov 27, 2006 14:50:45 GMT -6
One of the coaches on our sideline is complaining about a call when the another coach tells him "Stop bothering him can't you see he's too busy trying not to choke on his whistle!" LOL I thought that was too funny!
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Post by bigcroz on Nov 27, 2006 20:23:48 GMT -6
As an assistant a few years ago, our HC is giving it to the side judge. He throws a flag on our HC, who proceeds to turn and walk away to prevent himself from saying anything else. The SJ yells to him, "You better stop and listen to what I have to say coach or I'll throw another one and send you outta here!"
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Post by CoachDaniel on Nov 27, 2006 20:42:04 GMT -6
Sitting in the box watching the 8th grade team play a couple of years ago. Our fans are just letting our coach have it, screaming all game and its a close one. The kids have driven the ball down to the 2 yard line in position for the go-ahead score as the clock ticks down, 14 seconds, 13, 12... several dads screaming "RUN A PLAY COACH, YOU GOTTA RUN A PLAY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" Just going wild. Horn blows, doesn't get a play off.
So the kids march to the other end of the field and punch it in on the first play of the 4th quarter. There were some quiet dads for the next few minutes (not long enough).
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Post by airman on Nov 27, 2006 20:53:49 GMT -6
I saw our vasrity DC screaming at the ref. He was yelling it was a forward latteral. some one for got to tell him on the shovel or shuffel pass(which ever you call it) you could to this. I tried to explain it to him but he would not beleive me. he was really into the game, really a nutso guy and if he ever said some thing positive, the earth shook.
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Post by juice10 on Nov 28, 2006 15:17:02 GMT -6
I saw a coach do a "crappie flop" right at the 50 yard line after his offense was flagged for holding. The ref came over and explained the situation, and he didn't like it so he threw his hands in the air and fell over backwards right onto the field.
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Post by bluecrazy on Nov 28, 2006 16:28:26 GMT -6
Not many about coaches, but the the pep band started playing taps one time during one of the many big losses one year.
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Post by rathernot on Nov 30, 2006 8:03:31 GMT -6
My very first year coaching at the Varsity level was in a very small rural Kentucky school. During a very sloppily played and poorly officiated game (our team was assessed something in the neighborhood of 19 penalties and the opponents somewhere around 10) we were assessed a very questionable personal foul. Head Coach, very frustrated at this point, loses it with the linesman. Eventually gets the head ref and the umpire involved. He is screaming up one side and down the other, really giving it to these guys. Well... the penalty was following a change of possession and in the confusion the officials sent the opposing teams football to our sidline. The ref threw the ball very poorly and it ended up in the hands of the head coach not the ball girl. He proceeded to punt the ball all the way across the field to their sideline. Needless to say he received an unsportsmanlike flag but amazingly enough was not ejected. I was trying really hard not to laugh my a$$ off on the sideline.
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Post by eagled on Dec 1, 2006 1:41:32 GMT -6
It was my first game as a DC at a new school. We were playing the defending state champions. We couldn't stop them and they kept getting a short field and kept scoring. I asked the side judge if he would throw me out if I ran on the field and caused trouble. He told me no. That if he had to stay I had to stay.
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Post by coachshs on Dec 6, 2006 21:49:30 GMT -6
;D Once asked the linesman, "How can you guys sleep with all these lights on?!" ;D That is great! I will need to keep that in mind for a certain away game next year. |
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Post by spartancoach on Dec 7, 2006 7:30:04 GMT -6
After becoming absolutely frustrated with our TE always holding the DE when we ran Toss to his side rather than moving his feet, during a game our HC actually said the linesman "you have to call that, that hold was as blatant as it gets." In all seriousness, the linesman said "Coach, you know you have the ball?"
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Post by CoachJ on Dec 7, 2006 13:39:44 GMT -6
The craziest thing I ever saw happened when I was a player.
Our coach was a former NFL fullback and generally a nice man. We were playing a team that had 4 personal fouls for late hits already. Their 5th personal foul for late hit sent our best player to the hospital in an ambulance.
The coach from the other side of field yells to his players as the ambulence is pulling away "Now that's how we hit people."
Our coach snapped, sprinted across the field and popped the guy right in the nose. The guy dropped in a second.
Our coach came to practice the next day and resigned. He explained that there was no need to ever do what he had done and that violence is never the answer and he was sorry for exposing us to that.
I don't think violence is the answer, but I never really thought poorly of the guy. I do think what he did was a mistake, but the edge is closer than we like to admit sometimes. I don't think he ever coached another game, at least not that I ever heard.
Still though the craziest thing I ever saw.
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Post by Yash on Dec 7, 2006 21:26:14 GMT -6
Last year before a game the opposing teams coach said we looked like a pop warner team. Our pop warner team from a school ove 380 kids 9-12 grade beat his team from a school of 1200 kids 21-0 allowing 120 yards of offense while we had 2 backs go over 100 yards. Pop warner my butt
funniest thing was last year I was coaching the JV team and there was a fumble. I think we might have had the game in hand but I had a line in my pocket that I had been waiting to use. So the play comes to the end and we didn't get the ball on the fumble and I yell "come on guys we gotta jump on that ball ike its the last chopper out of 'Nam!" the refs looked at me and started laughing all the fans started laughing it was great. Most of my kids didn't have a clue what I meant.
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Post by Coach Huey on Dec 7, 2006 21:30:28 GMT -6
this year ... hear this voice screaming "throw the ball coach!!" . a few plays later we throw it and the qb is nowhere near the intended receiver (actually, not sure WHO he was throwing to .. lol). well, after that pass i hear this voice screaming "run the ball coach!!" ----- SAME VOICE!!!
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Post by roomc on Dec 8, 2006 8:50:16 GMT -6
fourth and a foot...throw the ball and it is incomplete. The refs spot the ball and signal first down the other way. Call timeout...As I walk to the huddle I start talking to the side judge about how close it is. Just throw out..." since I called a timeout you could measure!!!" They did and it was a first down!!! Gained a foot and half on an incomplete pass and got the first down! Needless to say the other sideline was going bananas!!!! Felt kind of guilty about that one!
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Post by cjamerson on Dec 8, 2006 10:14:08 GMT -6
Last season, in a district championship game (away), I had a cheerleader giving me a verbal thrashing. At the venue, the away team is roughly ten yards in front of the home crowd...between my team and the stands were the cheerleaders. She was calling me "Coach Shorty" and "Coach Fatty" all night long. After a busted play, she was telling me I'd better rethink my play calling. No administrators in sight! Add her with the brutal crowd...it was sweet winning that one! She was probably right...but hey, I've got feelings too!
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