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Originally posted by NothernVA_Ump
1)Throughout the first half White's Coach was yelling for fouls. I ignored him.
2)During a time out the Assistant comes over up to me and my partner and I tell him to return to his team.
3) At half time White's Coach goes to the book and sees that we only called one foul the whole half.
4) He now gets close to me and starts yelling at me. I put a stop to it quickly by telling him "Thats enough" He kept on so I told him "Thats your warning coach (with my hand held in a stop position)."
5) After the applause the Head Official (Mr. K) comes up to me and my partner and asks if in my opinon one foul call during the half was sufficiate for the level of contact. I state Yes. He told me I am wrong and starts to walk away.
6) At the start of the 2nd half I tell the kids to stop flopping (these kids know what it is) and in the 4th quarter a kid flops. It is so apparent that White flopped cause no one touched him. I blew my whistle and gave the appropriate call, a T for flopping. Mr. K states that it is not a T and stops the game until I change the call to a basic block.
Any thoughts?
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Thoughts?
Yeah, nothing ever change in rec league ballgames. You either have to expect that you're gonna get that type of nonsense or you don't bother to do their games.
Now, some pointers:
1) If you let 'em, they'll never stop yelling. One warning and then a technical foul takes care of this situation.
2) Automatic technical foul. Assistant coaches are to be seen- sitting down- and not heard. He's not only out of his bench area, he's yapping at you.
3) It's an automatic technical foul for the coach to look at the scorebook at the half. I know that you're not gonna call it at this level, but it's nice to know the rule.
4) Why did you warn the coach
twice? You don't let coaches yell at you, especially at half time, and the first "that's enough" was his warning. It's no use warning if you're not gonna follow up that warning either. Believe me, coaches will figure that out in a hurry if they're getting away with it.
5) If Mr. K isn't going to support his officials, then you don't want to work with him. Head officials are supposed to train or teach. He was doing neither.
6) Flopping is an advanced call at that age. Use with caution. Calling the block serves the same purpose. Having said that, Mr. K was wrong again to do what he did. That should have been taken care of after the game and in private.
Go for the high school ball- unless you're just in it for the money. You'll have a helluva lot fewer aggravations than you'll get in a rec league setting.
Whatever you do, good luck to you.