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Old Thu Feb 15, 2007, 09:37am
Jurassic Referee Jurassic Referee is offline
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Originally Posted by Ignats75
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Does it take a tough experienced official to handle Adult Men's Rec ball because the players and coaches are so abusive to referees; or Are the players and referees so abusive in Adult Men's REc because they've had to put up with referees like Old School? Who could blame them?
No, if the players and coaches are abusive to officials you (1) don't assign officials to that rec league if you're an assignor, and (2) don't accept games in that rec league if you're an official. If those leagues want good officiating, they have to clean up their act. If they don't care, they get the Old Schools of the world....people who officiate in a rec league for 10 years without owning a rulebook(by his own admission).