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For all you vets out there, I'm sure you've seen this a million times over, but it was the first for me. I was working a 5th grade boys game this weekend (missing football, by the way...darn it!), and we had a bunch of shuffles and stutters with the feet. Of course, I tried to use the advantage/disadvantage principle and only call a travel within the key or when a player was 'walking' his way to the basket. I figured a kid standing a few feet outside the arc not being guarded could take an extra step or two when he's trying to pass the ball, what the heck.
Of course, there were a few fathers that decided that their son's team were being cheated, and wouldn't shut up with the hollering and badgering of us officials for the 'obvious' no-call travels. Now, I'd say this one guy made his point known not less than five separate occasions, when he went off again, and let the whole gym know that we 'shouldn't even be getting paid for working this game.' Now being a first year official I figure you gotta put up with a little bit, but this guy is nuts. I finally blew my whistle and was about to walk over and give the guy the heave-ho, when my partner must have read my mind and beat me to it. He quietly asked the guy to relax and be quiet. I didn't hear anything else from him the rest of the way, but I thought my partner was a little to easy on him. Does anyone think he should've gotten a harsher punishment? I mean, this guy was embarassing himself more than the officials, and I'd think his son would have felt a little embarassed, too.
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