I mean, I’ve never played sports, either. I have a hard time imagining someone less into sports than I. But I still know how players refer to their coaches. I know this because I have existed in a world that includes other people.
Here’s a nickname the MAGAts can have free of charge: “Stretch Nikita Khrushchev” 
Good point. But, have you ever cheated on your pet dog by petting a different dog?
I have.
Hussy.
Good thing you are running for VP of USA. I think my pocket constitution says that is an instant disqualifier.
Whereas I’m the guy who says ‘football’s the one with the pointy ball, right?’ I don’t know what the proper protocol is for coaching hierarchies and can’t imagine why anybody would think it was important in this context. I mean, I’m kinda embarrassed for them.
I think it’s spelled Husky.
In any sport, any official coach at any level can be addressed as “coach”, and a lot of unofficial (i.e. volunteer) coaches as well. “Head Coach” is a status label or specific job title. Pro football, little league baseball, PE class in school. Whatever.
I think I addressed this a couple of weeks ago as well. All coaches are addressed as ‘coach’ by their players. No coach is addressed as ‘head coach’ or ‘assistant defensive line coach’ or anything else. It might be ‘Coach Mary’ or ‘Coach Smith’, but it’s always, always ‘coach’.
Just like you’d address an assistant professor as “Professor,” or a Lieutenant Colonel as “Colonel.”
Exactly. As an example, last weekend, a man named Joe D’Alessandris, who was the offensive line coach for the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens, passed away. He had a 45-year career in coaching, always coaching offensive linemen (i.e., an assistant coach), never a head coach. Doesn’t matter, he was still referred to as “coach”, with no modifier/qualifier:
This was a post on the Ravens’ X account:
Coach Ernie Pantusso was a third base coach.
And, for that matter, in baseball, by tradition, a team’s “head coach” isn’t even titled “coach,” it’s “manager.” Anyone who is a “coach” in baseball is, by definition, an assistant coach.
Anyway, we’re beating a dead horse. It’s clear that an assistant coach is still a coach, and referring to them as “Coach” is not deceptive; it’s just the Republicans grasping at straws to find something about Walz to pick at.
I think these weak attacks might be part of what wins this for Harris and Walz. The MAGA types will hear these attacks, because they are the ones who are the intended audience. But at the same time, it’s such a lame attack, about a subject that a large majority of Americans are quite familiar with, that it has to make at least some of them wonder, “Is this really the best they can come up with?”
I mean, they’re routinely being told that Harris and Walz are going to destroy the country in some non-specific manner, but then, the most specific complaint they see is, he gets called “coach”?
I think that’s the primary point. I’m very sure MAGA-land is full of people who are quite familiar with the fact that their kids call all the coaches on the staff, “Coach.” That’s what makes it particularly stupid.
It’s like telling Catholics that an “enemy” candidate calls his assistant pastor, “Father,” even though he’s not the head padre. 
Or claiming that someone that has earned a PHD has no right to use Dr. in front of their name unless they’ve performed open heart surgery.
Unless they’re Republican, of course.
And to be very clear, the target demographic of those who might respond positively specifically to his being a football coach, his rural roots, and small town sensibilities, is the exact demographic that most understands exactly how lame the attack is.
Those few of us who don’t understand that every coach is Coach, and there may be a few … well they are not the target audience of playing up Coach.
I heard the assistant coach thing as an actual attack once a few weeks ago, and endless comments about it since then around here. This isn’t an attack they are going with.
No doubt true. I don’t frequent the sites where those attacks are actually made. They may have realized it was a dumb line to take after day one. Could be.
Still happy to amplify every fumble team Trump makes however I can!