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Old Thu Jun 03, 2004, 08:05pm
BktBallRef BktBallRef is offline
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Originally posted by CommonSenseRef
Young officials start out working younger kids games, YMCA, AAU, rec league. This is where parents are at their worst.
Ah, excuse me, but who do you think are coaching these teams? 9 times out of 10, the coaches in younger kids YMCA, AAU, and league games are PARENTS. They're the same animal.

Parents/coaches at this leavel are EQUALLY responsible for the problems that we have in losing young officials.

As for Jurassic, he can speak for himself but that's never stopped me from speaking up before. He may have to tolerate a stupid, big mouth coach in a game that he's officating but he doesn't have to tolerate one here and neither does anyone else. A genuine effort was made to answer Bozo's question. Bozo chose to take the low road. There was no turning it around after that.

This is a forum for discussion about officiating the game of basketball. Coaches are always welcome, as long as they take the high road. But we don't have to tolerate them when they take the low road. When hear enough of that crap in the gym. We shouldn't have to read it on a forum that's generously provided for us.

And Brad doesn't tolerate it either. He usually sends them packing.

[Edited by BktBallRef on Jun 3rd, 2004 at 11:44 PM]