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Originally posted by official/coach
Jur.Ref;
Come on now. This isn't politics. The poster used the phrase "middle school girls coach" in a derogatory manner to put down the coach. All I am saying is that while he was coaching middle school girls, the official was calling a middle school girls game, so they are basically in the same zip code there. I am not trying to argue about this, only being fair. If you think you are too good to be dealing with middle school girls coaches, don't officiate middle school girls games.
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I'm not completely sure about the point that you are trying to make. The poster was trying to remind Kallix that he was coaching middle school girls. Not the Lakers in the NBA Finals. Leave the "working officials" up to Phil Jackson, iow. And I'm too good to deal with middle school girls coaches? I assign all the games at all levels in my area for the association that I belong to. I deal with middle school coaches all the time. I also assign myself to quite a few of these games to train new officials. Most of the middle school coaches that I deal with are very good people, who honestly believe in the tenets of sportsmanship and fair play, and who also know that their main job is COACHING. They leave the officiating up to us. They may question a call, or get upset at an obviously bad call- but THEY DO NOT WORK OFFICIALS. They also know that, quite often, they are going to get newer officials and trainees on their games. They allow for that. Being realistic, they don't expect to have NCAA D1 quality officials assigned to their games. Unfortunately, a few of them are similar to Kallix-i.e.- let's work the officials to see if we can gain ourselves an extra advantage, or let's worry more about trying to influence an official than actually spending some time teaching their team. Especially teaching their team a little bit about sportsmanship.
Also, I don't categorize either coaches or officials as "middle school" anything. I do recognize that a few coaches at all levels try to justify their own shortcomings by blaming the officials for everything that they can come up with. Thankfully, they are a small minority. I also recognize that they are some officials out there that are, quite plain and simply, not very good. Unfortunately, due to a general shortage of officials (not just in my area, but right across the country), we have to use these officials. You know what? Even if they're bad, as long as they are consistent and equally fair to both teams in their game-calling, they will never cost anybody a ballgame. Just because they are not good officials does not give Kallix or any other coach license to work, try and influence, or constantly complain about the job that they are doing.
That's where I'm coming from,coach.