[HoosierBuckeye Ref]

First, thanks mick for helping me out. It is now clear.

Ok, let's see if I can remember what happened this week, I have been so busy with school.

Monday, I had three games scheduled. Last game was a forfit. The first game I had was a Men's I game (top division). Frat vs. Non-frat. During the playoffs, the frats bring out a ton of fans that line the court and of course, there is about four feet of room between each court. Anyhow, back and forth game the entire way. My partner and I called everything from the start and neither team learned to stop fouling and we called 36 fouls (we play two 20 minute halves, running clock). I threw one of the fans out because he was standing right behind our table and as I went to report a foul he is vocalizing, so everyone can hear, his displeasure in my call, in addition to waving his arms about. My roomate, who is a head official (they walk around, make sure everything runs ok and basically represent the people that sit in the office during the day), was standing right night to the table and I told my roomate, "Bill, get him out of here." Then the kid tried to hide in the crowd, my roomate took care of him.

It got to the point in this game where both captains were asking for us to call less fouls. Usually it is the other way. Later on, I call and travel, and as blue is walking backwards away from my while looking at me, I ask blue to give the ball three times, and he procedes to "lightly" kick the ball to me so it would just land in my hands at chest level (not a punt). Bam, T. Then later, white had a lay-up and blue went to block the shot on the way down. My first goaltending call. After the game, I found out the frat team tried protesting the game because white used an illegal player. This game had it all and either team could have won it.

Next game was uneventful.

On Tuesday, forfit my first game, second game I kept score, and the third game my partner told the captain's in the captains meeting, "Ok, it is the playoffs, we are going to call it early and often." I knew I would be in for it then.

Partner did not call a foul until at least 5 or 6 minutes into the game. Yes, maybe he did not see a foul till then, but the way these kids play, it is kind of hard to imagine.

We had three T's and an intentional in this game. The T went against A for jewelry. I am trail and A1 had a fastbreak, B1 intentionally fouls him by bearhugging him, both my partner and I blow our whistles for the foul, I go right up with the X. The second T my partner called cause this guy from B was yelling at me from his bench as I was reporting a time out. I think he drop the f-bomb to describe me, I did not hear it, but I thank my partner for having my back. So not only did B get two foul shots for the intentional, but then they got two more for the T during the dead ball.

I was trail and had a foul up between the arc and the foul line, I run in yelling "on the ground" waving off the shot (I am watching the college officials in how the sell the call, namely the Big Ten Officials). B1 then proceeds to start waving his arm in the same manner I did to call off the shot and I gave B2 a T because he was not going to show me up.

Game over, I run off the court towards the drinking fountains (we are in the middle of 10 courts) and (I am almost certain it was B1) trailed after me telling me "You are terrible...even though we won the game." I could not help but smile. And I know I am going to get some responses that one of the head officials should have been there to stop the kid, but it was not a concern, it has been taken care of. Ironically, after our games, we award sportsmanship ratings (0-4, 4 being "angels") and if you get a T, you automatically get no higher than a 3. So since they got 2 T's, we gave them a 2, and at least during the regular season you need to average a 3 rating to make it to the playoffs. Since this is the playoffs, I am not sure if they will be allowed to go to the next round or how that works.

Whew. Sorry again for a long post. I thought I did a decent job of game management, but still need to work on my reporting mechanics by using one hand.

One question I do have, what is the procedure if the ball passes through the rim from the bottom and was not intended as a shot, but was tipped around underneath as people try to gain possession after a rebound. Thanks!