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Originally posted by CommonSenseRef
Unfortunately, I am really embarrassed so see a veteran member of this board feel the need to resort to name calling, ie. Bozo. Sure, this guy is venting, and maybe rightly so, who knows. Like I've never NEVER seen any venting about coaches on this board.
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Tell you what. Somewhere down the line, you try spending literally hundreds of hours each year recruiting, training, assigning, evaluating and mentoring referees. Do it for about, oh, 20 or 25 years too. Then you sit down EVERY SINGLE YEAR with a bunch of these referees- great,young men and women- and listen to why they are giving up officiating as "not being worth the abuse that we have to take". Give it a try, guys. Let's see how much patience you end up having with bozos like Kaliix that obviously do not respect officials or the job that the officials are trying to do. I have nothing but respect for the coaches that actually COACH! Nobody minds any coach that gets upset occasionally. And that includes T's or the occasional ejection too. However, I certainly do mind middle-school coaches, or any coach really, that think working the officials is a major part of their coaching duties. I have no respect for them, and I will never will have any respect for them.
To be quite honest, I'm as equally embarrassed when I read about other officials that do tolerate coaches that abuse their fellow officials.