I toss on average 2 youth coaches a yea for typical reasons; I’ve tossed one head coach, my second year, varsity game, week 3. He apparently had this thing with his team where if mistakes were made, they owned them and immediately drop to do push-ups.
That night, I guess Coach thought he made two mistakes. The first one he did his 10 or 15 push-ups as penance on the sideline. When I saw him I yelled at him to get up, and he did, and told him that was his warning. The second mistake, he yelled to his team that the play call mistake was on him, and he dropped to do his pushups… except he was on the field when he did them; both the whitehat and I immediately flagged him, and he was done.
…except he wasn’t. This was a six man game, and the bus was parked next to the visitor’s stands (their sideline). He went and sat in the bus in the drivers seat, and called another coach on the sideline, maybe they were talking about the weather, maybe he was still coaching, who knows, but it was brought to our attention and we stopped the game at that point until he got off the phone with the coach. That upset him, so he began honking the bus horn nonstop in protest. After a good 2-3 minutes, if not more, he literally just started the bus and drove away. No idea where he went. Presumably he came back to pick up the kids, we didn’t hang around to see, not our problem.
Incident report was def filed. I believe he got just a reprimand from UIL for it.
