[Stripes130]

I guess I didn't explain that right,, it was the type of game you just kinda had to be there. By the way it was back in the regular season, not summer. These girls had, honestly no clue of any rule, by the way they acted. I kid you not, EVERY call the were reacting sarcastically to, to a point that it was extremely unsportsmanlike. and I am nothing close to sensitive enough to react to a "dirty look" It was just out of hand. we were calling a good game..the athletic director even told us that we did the best job he's seen all season in keeping his team under control. The reaction of the girl after the first T was not a little mouse peep, it was a show to the whole crowd with a loud moan. I did not T the girl for calling me "stoopid", she said that as she was leaving. And the only reason I mentioned race was because she pronounced it the way you guys were spelling it. I am nowhere close to predjudice, I just thought it was funny when your spelling of the word brought back that little memory. The reason I was sending the disqualified players to the locker room was because it would have made it worse for them to sit on the bench. They didn't want to stay anyway. The AD said that when the varsity players get disqualified they go sit in the stands with their friends. The biggest issue here was that these girls were not about to listen to us as human beings or even try to understand why we were calling the game the way we were. They may have been unfortunate in the past to get less assertive officials... who were willing to travel to the outskirts of town (the farthest west school in our area, by far). A lot of the guys I know will not go out there simply because it is too far and the level of play is uuuhhh well not quite that good. Maybe I should have been a little more patient and tried to explain to these girls the rules, but that would have taken forever. They simply did not understand the simplest rules. Like I said before -- the girl was trying to argue with me about a FIVE STEP travel!!!. I still cannot believe it myself that they could play a whole season and not know the rules. That is why I think coaches should take the test too.

[Edited by Stripes130 on Jul 17th, 2001 at 11:52 PM]