[SlowBoat407]

Certainly the coach bears full responsibility for what happened. You disagree? Do you think the lesson for these kids should be that we only obey the rules that we agree with?

I think the greater lesson here is that the coach showed some spine against a power-drunk league commissioner, did what he thought was best withing the rules set down by the league, and showed the commissioner for what he really was. It's not about blindly obeying one dictator's whim, but about exercising judgment within the official standards.

[robertpaulsen]

"I think the greater lesson here is that the coach showed some spine against a power-drunk league commissioner"

That's certainly one way to look at it. Another way is that he violated his word.