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Originally Posted by UNIgiantslayers
This was my first year with a full varsity slate, and I earned a post season game from the state which tells me I can't be as terrible of an official as this league makes me feel. Last night was the nail in the coffin for adult men's wreck league. The following events made me send an email to the coordinator telling him I was done and he'd have to find someone to fill my remaining games:
-A guy argued that there is no 5 second closely guarded rule (we are NFHS). I explained that college and Fed are different, and he insisted that even in HS, there is no closely guarded.
-A guy didn't understand why after a false double foul (2 shots on a shooting foul, 2 for a T after the foul), they didn't get a chance to rebound the ball when we gave it to other team at half court for throw in. After explaining it, he said "you're trying to give them the game."
-Gave out 4 T's (2 f-bombs, 2 players shoving and almost fighting)
-Games 4 & 5, partner doesn't cross half court as T
-Partner signaling preliminary 3 on ball across the lane in other corner
-Partner calls hand check as L across the lane behind 3 point line
-Received email from coordinator telling me to take it easy on T's and to have thicker skin.
The extra money is nice, but it's not worth the headache. Kudos to those that lasted longer than the 1 1/2 seasons I lasted in men's wreck.
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My game yesterday wasn't as bad, but wasn't far from it.
Started well and was a good game for awhile. It was about a 5 point game when things started to get a little heated. Team A only started with 7 players. Team A's best player fouled out in the first half (aggressive but not under control, 2 fouls were charges). Team A's players liked to scream "and one" every time they went up for a shot attempt, even if nobody was near them. My partner and I finally had enough and warned the team that this was unsportsmanlike and in violation of both NFHS and league rules, and that further screams of that nature would result in a technical foul. (The team argued they had been doing it all season, like I never heard that before). Late in the 3rd quarter, A1 goes up for a shot and screams "and one" which immediately earns him a technical foul. We have a league rule that states a player must sit for 2 minutes after being assessed and intentional or technical foul. He argues a bit but goes to the bench. The problem is his team mate, which should be subbing in for him has gone to the bathroom. We shoot the tech FT's and inbound the ball. Here comes A 0 out of the bathroom. He walks over to the table and realizes that Team A only has 4 players on the floor, so he immediately runs onto the floor during play. Partner calls a tech on A 0 for entering the court without permission. He now has to sit for two minutes and now Team A only has 4. Team B goes on a huge run and takes a 10 point lead. Penalty time runs out and Team A is back to 5 players.
About 3 minutes left and Team B is up 10. Team A inbounds the ball and A 0 puts up a shot and thinks he was fouled. He goes Ape-!@#$ and drops multiple F-bombs directed at me. He gets a T and the exit door from me (2nd Tech, but his actions were also deserving of a flagrant foul). He continues and refuses to leave the gym, which earns him a tech from my partner (he also called my partner an F-ing something as well, which earned the T). During the 4th quarter we had a fan starting to get a bit crazy complaining about calls. Whatever, I can ignore that to a point. This fan starts getting more vocal crude and is asked by site supervision to leave. After shooting the tech FT's this fan decides to throw her water bottle across the gym. My partner sees this and immediately ends the game.
This caused the captain of Team A (A 13) to go APE-!@#$. He comes over and gets in my face saying you can't F-ing end the game, then he starts going after the other team. He is also rewarded with a flagrant T. The fan then comes across the court and starts yelling at us and the other team about how we are all F-ing cheaters and such. She is being disruptive to the point of the site supervisor pulling out his phone to call the police. She then says that calling the police won't make a difference because she's been arrested many times before. (I'm not shocked). She also says she is going to call the police because we stole the game from her boys.
The funniest and saddest part of this mess was the female fan. I thought she was the wife or girlfriend of one of the players. Nope, this was the mother of #13, the one who went off on me after the game was called.
It is truly WRECK League when you have your mother coming out and making a scene at her ADULT child's basketball game. (I do use the term child correctly because that's what he acted like).
My end of game report requested a minimum 2 game suspension for #0 and for #13 (team captain) and that the Rec Department request a trespass order be placed on the mother prohibiting her from setting foot on any school district property.
The absolute worst part was the on the other end of the bleachers who two elementary aged children of one of the Team B players. These two young ladies were absolutely scared to death when this was happening because they didn't understand what was going on. The site supervisor had to go over and calm them down because their father wasn't able to calm them down.
That game almost made me want to give up on working WRECK LEAGUE Games as well.
At least my supervisor generally understood what was called and has so far supported us. The question of support will be answer when I find out if they have suspended the players and barred the mother from the school facilities were we play.