Recently, I attended a Chelsea basketball game.  The Bulldogs fell behind early, but they made a late comeback and fell just short of winning the game.  It was a fun finish.

Sadly, the opposing coach was a bit less fun.  Throughout the game, he had no qualms about being vocally negative, both toward the officials and toward his own players.  At one point, when his team was whistled for a foul on a Chelsea shot shortly after no fouls were called during a physical sequence on the other end of the court, he informed the officials of the depth of their poor judgment.  After he expressed his opinion to the officials, he made one comment, ostensibly to himself but audible to many in the vicinity: “Only in Chelsea.”  That was all too representative of his general attitude and behavior.

I have failed to mention an important detail: it wasn’t a varsity game; it wasn’t a JV game; it wasn’t even a freshman game.  In fact, it was an eighth grade boys basketball game.

Is that really what eighth-grade boys should see in their coach?