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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
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Originally posted by lmeadski
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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. [/B]
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Exactly.
And the officials enforce the rules using
their judgment as to whether a foul actually occurred or there was incidental contact. Officials do
not call fouls using a
coach's judgment. Somehow, I don't think that process would really work, no matter how much you advocate it.
The bottom line still remains that the players you're dealing with are unskilled, pre-teenage kids. And maybe you're also dealing with newer, unskilled officials also. I can't say that with certainty however; I never saw the officials. Until then, they get the benefit of the doubt from me.
Let it go. It's done; it's over; ain't anybody gonna come along and commit CPR on that game and bring it back to life either. Onwards and upwards.... [/B][/QUOTE]
But he's going to go hire officials that will call the game tighter -- in other words, the way he wants.
I hear this all the time in girls games, even at the varsity level. Parents complaining about girls "going to get hurt" when they dive on the floor after loose balls, etc. Amazing how those same parents only scream for fouls when they would be the beneficiary of the calls, though.
It takes no skill whatsoever to blow a whistle every time players are contacted. ANYONE can do that.