Coach reaction

I agree with IJAG.

You're there to report on the game and write the story, not to be the mouthpiece for those girls, nor are you there to support the team.

 

Tell the guy to go fuck himself and that you don't work for him and that you don't need some Tommy Lasorda wannabe telling you how to do your fucking job.

 

Big talk.

 

No, that's just how you handle a grandstanding high school coach.

 

Then slap him until he STOPS crying....think about it.

 

So next time, try the opposite approach: "I dont support your team and I never will!"

Be sure the girls are around to hear it, too.

 

If that's me I lose great respect for the coach. No coach likes when we point out that it's the worst loss in school history or breaks a streak, etc. But they love it when we say it's the first team in school history to score 100 points or win 20 games.
You shouldn't have said you are always supportive of the team in my opinion. That's not your job.
The coach is just another coach; I'd lose a lot of respect for him after this incident.

 

Again, it was the shock of the moment. Besides, everyone knows when you write for a community newspaper in a one high school town that you support the team. Hell, this guy is a friend, and still is. I think this "you shouldn't have said that" talk on this thread is easy to write and pass judgement (although y'all have convinced me never to say that again - and it was the first time I have ever said that to a coach) when you weren't there in the moment.
But hey, thanks for the advice, and it is something I already knew it's just - again - a shock of the moment thing, so I think I should be spared the crtiticism.

 

I strongly disagree with the idea that everyone knows you support the team. It's not your job to support the team and you should tell people that. It makes you a homer.
It's your job to cover the team. That's entirely different.
Is the team rooting for you to write a good story or win awards? Probably not.

 

Dude, I was just telling him (by saying it that way) that I was not out to sensationalize the situation and that I wasn't begging for a loss so I could "write a dramatic article." I have never openly cheered for any team I cover. Some of you guys act like I brought pom poms into the dugout and led the cheers.
I should have just left that part out of my original post. It doesn't have a damn thing to do with the questions I brought up. Some of you people are not realistic at all. And those who claim to have worked in community newpapers - how soon you forget.
All this talk should have ended with my reply acknowledging that I shouldn't have said that. Quite fucking piling on, and get fucking real.

 

Um, I worked at a community paper for 10 years until recently. I know exactly what I'm talking about.
Take our advice or don't, but we're right. You shouldn't say that because people hear it as, "I root for your team."

 

Does your government writer support city officials? Same thing should apply to us in sports. You would never hear a writer say, "You know, I always support the council.