Re: WCHA Thread III
Or maybe the time out would never have been taken. If one doesn't respect a former assistant enough not to make his team wait through a meaningless last-minute timeout, then I'm not sure who would be worthy of that respect. Because as wrong as Means was -- and I totally agree that he was dead wrong -- there is nothing said during such a timeout that couldn't have waited to be said in the locker room a minute later.
Meaningless to whom? It sure doesn't appear to have been meaningless to Miller, otherwise she wouldn't have called it.
As I asked (suggested) at the time in the UMD thread back in February, the time out may have been related to strategy for the remaining 40 seconds (as I recall) of the game in an attempt to allow Irwin to get her 200th career point. If so, and if Flygh had been on the other bench, I would imagine that Miller would have done the exact same thing since the moment was about Irwin, and Irwin alone, not about Flygh or Miller...not about respect, or lack thereof, for anyone.
And assuming that that was the reason for the time out then, no, it couldn't have waited until they got into the locker room a minute later.
Possibly Flygh may have had an advantage over Means in that situation since having worked with Miller he may have had an inkling as to what her motive may have been...possibly not. But as I said, I don't think he would have responded as Means did.
And I agree, that the mature reponse even if you feel slighted is to get even on the scoreboard. And if you can't accomplish that at that time or in a future game then acceptance of the fact that you can't win them all, on the scoreboard and otherwise, is the next mature default response.
