canuckrefguy - a risk I'm willing to take hehe. To be honest, anything that would make an *** out of me already has a provision in the inTRAmurals guidelines.
The captain of either team has the ability at anytime to call for a "Protest." Essentially, equivilent to a challenge in football without the use of instant replay. Certain things are challengeable, for instance how many shots someone has or who gets possession on a double foul or anything of that nature. Eye-ball calls, for instance
fouls or out of bounds calls can't be "Protested."
Depending on the openess of a situation, sometimes in-between calls are allowed for traveling and such. For instance, at another court (not my game) one time a player was dribbling and fell down while dribbling, continued their dribble and got back up. Ref called travel and the Captain protested. Since neither party disagreed on the continuation of the dribble, it was eligible for Protest. Had the ref said that the player picked up his dribble in his eyes, it would not have been a "protestable" situation (just a miscall, as if that was his view it'd be a dd)
The purpose of the rule book goes more for halftime teaching sessions on a lot of the myths, like the examples I mentioned in my orginal post. These kids have been playing basketball their whole life and realistically have never looked at a rule book. I think that intimidation alone will hopefully give them a new perspective into our job and give them further clarity on the rules.
The disrespectful ones realistically I won't get into a confrontations with. I'll smile and do my job. The rule book is for those who are somewhat decently cordial. Whenever I have a quick moment after a ruling of a myth call, I like to give a quick explanation if we have a second. Wishful thinking I know that everyone cares what the rules are, but at least I've made that effort.
And if I'm made a fool of, I'll be the first to laugh at myself and admit fault. With only a little under 80 games under my belt in the last month (about 15-20 a week), I'm always learning.
So the rulebook is there for me too. The other day after a game where we had an intentional foul and a made bucket, I wasn't sure on procedure. We went with two free throws and the ball, but I made sure to double check after the game. In the past I'd check when I got home, but on days where you are doing 5 games or Sundays when I do upwards of 7-8 games, it'll be nice to get the info earlier in case there are any duplicates.
Wow I just wrote a novel. Just some thoughts
