Had he been miked for audio, you wouldn't have been able to tell if the replay was from a 9thand 10th-grade boys basketball game or an episode of The Jerry Springer Show . So often would you have had to bleep his obscenities, you might have confused his coaching messages for Morse code. A time or two I noticed the referees look his way. Since the bad language was not directed at them, they didn't give him a technical foul. I think that's a technicality that should have been ignored.
Coaches are teachers.
Whether they ever set foot in an academic classroom, they are instructors nonetheless. They might not teach geometry, except for the angle of a cut to the basket. They might not teach reading, outside of recognizing the defense an opponent has thrown up before them. But they definitely teach language, and not just the X's and O's in a playbook. Coaches can teach youngsters that they can communicate without having to resort to language that would make a sailor blush.