[WindyCityRef]

And yet another side of the story:

Here's what happened to me last night, 8th grade boys.

Teams are both playing hard, Green is up by 20 and I can see a couple of the kids on both sides starting to get aggravated with each other. Boys will be Boys. Coach from White team pulls his kid, he was smart, saw the kid starting to act badly and yanked him, even though it was his best player. Kid from green team is upset with being fouled going in to score, I called the foul, it wasn't cheap or dirty, however he picked up the ball and threw it at the White team player, hitting him. I blew the whistle and called a T. My mistake was not ejecting this player.

Two possessions later, another White foul - holdng - upsets a differnt Green player, he runs after and pushes the White player to the floor. Again, T and this time I eject the player. Coach from Green isn't happy. I talk to him and tell him to calm his players down. He just yells at me, for what I don't know.

After the T, While inbounds the ball and Green knocks it out of bounds, I signal While ball, Green bench goes nuts, players on the floor start screaming at me. It was the easiest call of the night for me, I have no idea why these people are acting like this. Green team yanks his players off the court and they leave.

I leave to inform the guy running the league as to what just happened, and when I left his room to go get a drink and return to the floor to do my next game, parents from Green are wating for me and start giving me a ton of static, one player from Green who I T'd up for tossing the ball at a White player is there also and starts yelling right in my face, right in front of the parents. Heck it was hard to move away from these people. I just got the heck out of there.

Once agian, I informed the guy running the league and he said he'd take care of it. Guess what, that same Green team played at the court next to mine two games later, no one was susspened or anything.

I'll never work there again!! I hope they can find officials in a year or two, they get what they deserve.