Timing Is Everything In The Coaching Business

Portland’s KGW-TV reports this week that Jeffrey Scott Larsen, a volunteer basketball coach for youth girls’ basketball in Mollala, Oregon, was arrested and is accused of trespassing after getting ejected from a game in Estacada and nearly starting a fight with the ref.

Jeffrey Scott Larsen

Larsen nearly came to blows with the referee over the ejection and the calls. Video of Larsen losing it prior to the ejection after the jump.

Witnesses told police that a 6th-grade girl was cut on the hand when the coach slammed down his clipboard and stormed off. Instead of leaving the court, Larsen stood in the corner of the gym and began to verbally harass Houston Webb, the 17-year-old referee, police said.

Yikes. Making pre-teen girls cry, allegedly one punching motion away from a fight with a teenage ref, and accused of escalating the “fan hostility” between the parents of two elementary schools.

If only this happened a couple weeks ago, Mr. Larsen could’ve been soon back in business, in Lubbock, TX.

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