[steve33]

Some issues that have cumulated over the season from the Coach's perspective, and I'd like some neutral officials opinions.

First, in an away JUCO game in Arizona this year, our team was basically "screwed" by the scorers table. During the game, our book was on the bench keeping tabs of fouls, and every time a foul was called, he was listening/watching the officials foul call, and then double checking with the scoreboard display. At halftime, we have our #4 with 2 fouls, #14 with 1, and #40 with 4 (bad day). When we come out for the 2nd half, a foul is called on #14, and she all of a sudden has 4 fouls. We have the game stopped to check with the official book, and she says no mistakes were made...Albeit a moot point considering we won. But after review of the tape, the book was completely wrong.

In another game, we were in Dallas, and the referee's didn't think much of our appeals for uniform violations by the other team. NCAA changed rules this year disallowing tights and different colored headbands, and after asking, they said those weren't real rules...same game, kick ball occurs, shot clock was at 3, and they reset to 30, and the rules state that when the clock is down to 14 or lower, the clock resets to 15. Appealed again, said it really didn't matter...

Just some thoughts on how these situations should be handled considering they are out of town officials, since we know where to call if something happens at home.