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Originally Posted by ATXCoach
I'm shocked and embarrassed at most of the responses to this post.
I think the original poster does a great service to him or herself and the game. The argument for asking is simply to maintain the safety of all participants - don't try to turn it to anything else.
P.S. - In 10 years of coaching I've only had one situation where an injury warranted immediate attention - My player trying to save a ball going out of bounds races towards the endline stumbles head first into a brick wall. The ref raced across the baseline and caught her before she hit the ground. I'm glad some of you on this board weren't reffing that game, because she technically saved the ball and it was still live on the court, so what the ruling - play on until the ball is dead and let her lay unconscious on the floor.
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As JR said, you really need to go back and actually read what many of us said. I was one of the first that said this was not our job. All I was talking about is that I am not trained in any kind of medical field that if a player passed out or had a seizure, I would have no idea what to do or what was necessary. This is why even during summer game there is a trainer or some person with medical training to help for anywhere from minor to serious ailments.
Also you are assuming that most of us here only work with kids. Many of us work games with adults. I have worked many college games and I can tell you many college programs have more training staff on them than officials on the field. Also I work football where the violence in the sport is much more than most basketball games will ever get. The minute a kid falls, there are 4 or 5 people trained in a football game to take care of that kids needs. I was at a college camp this summer and there was a kid that had a seizure (no medical history from all accounts) and I was lost as to what to do. Fortunately the college that ran the team camp had medical personnel to take care of this kid and do what was medically correct. It was funny because there was a fellow official at this camp that works in a hospital as an administrator and some of the comments that were coming from fans and observers to handle this kid's seizure would have been wrong according to this official who is not a doctor or trained in the medical profession. But he was around enough situations to have very basic knowledge of what to do and helped bring some medical equipment that was helpful to the trainer that was on staff at the moment of this kid's seizure. If we listen to you, we might have harmed this kid and caused a problem that we would have been liable for.
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Originally Posted by ATXCoach
P.S.S. - you do realize that you are officiating a game played by KIDS of varying ages and skill sets of whom a very rare few will ever make any money at. I know you take crap from everyone about the job you do, but don't put the rulebook ahead of the safety of the kids - which is your main task until you are reffing the pros.
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Once again you need to go back and read what we said. YOU need to understand that it is not the rulebook that is the issue. It is the fact that if we went to college or were trained in a particular profession, most of us has never been to any kind of medical profession. I think you need to do better reading to know what we said and taking our comments in context instead of telling us what is more important.
Peace