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Originally posted by lmeadski
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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
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Originally posted by Dan_ref
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Rough play can always be stopped by the coach, especially at the age level we're discussing.
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Gasp.....
Are you intimating that a coach might just possibly... maybe have the teeniest, weeniest, slightest, minisculest bit of responsibility for the way his kids actually play?
What a novel concept!
It'll never catch on though. It's always sooooooo much easier to blame the real culprits- the officials.
Cleopatra wasn't the only Queen of Denile.  [/B]
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Coaches and players have first and full responsibility for how kids play. Referees are in position to INFLUENCE how the kids play and how the coaches act by enforcing the rules. If the coaches and players continue their aggressive play, rule enforcement will amply penalize them: bonus, double bonus, flagrant fouls and maybe technicals. Continued non-compliance only hurts the offending team and it is their prerogative to act any way they choose. Denial is thinking that refs have no influence on a game. Of course we do, and, depending how tight or loose we call a game, undue influence. [/B][/QUOTE]
Having to deal with coaches like you is the reason I work nothing but varsity high school basketball and the occasional college game. I'd rather whack my head off a cement wall than call youth rec games these days. And that includes basketball, baseball, AND football.
There's no worse thing we can hear on a court than "I'm a ref, too" coming out of the mouth of one of the coaches. Guy coaches for 20 years but sends in $50 to the state and an open-book test (which he passes with a minimum score) and all of a sudden he's "one of us." That's the guy who's going to be the most trouble on the court, most of the time.