The insecure red-ass

checked with George, my neighbor here in Clifton. He would know, as the retired head of the Psychology Department of North Texas University, all about human behavior... and coaching behaviors ... they are human beings, aren't they? George tells me that "stress-filled professions or avocations produce more opportunities for personal insecurities to surface."

I think what he meant was that if you consciously put a coach or an umpire into a pressure cooker or make them think that they are in a pressure-cooker, they will act as if they are cooking under pressure. The situation will unleash emotions that  are, for the sake of civility and peace, normally controlled

How a person acts when he's under pressure is a sure indication of what attitudes that person possesses when the heat is turned down!

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