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I'm not sure anything said in the pregame could have prepared the coaches and my partner & I from the wonderful game we had last night. This is a league JV boys game. My first call of the night is a travel against a kid on the home team after he clearly comes down one foot before the other on his jump stop. The coach goes nuts telling me he practices this move 10 minutes every day and coming down one foot before the other is not a travel and I need to read the rule book. The rest of the night he thinks we're "out to get him" and at half-time he waits at the table, on purpose, just so he can wait till I'm in earshot when he asks his AD if there's any way he can send in an evaluation of us. What a sweet guy. Sometimes you can't prevent a hothead no matter how much you try. Oh by the way, he lost by 2 but was up late in the game and had every opportunity to win. Bummer.
Then as I'm telling one of the varisty refs about how my night started, he agrees with the coach that on a jump stop the kid can come down one foot before the other. I debate this with him for about 5 minutes and neither of us caves in. I go out to watch the first quarter and during warm-ups the partner of the guy I was debating with comes over laughing thanking me for getting his partner all riled up. I was happy to go home.
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