[RookieDude]

An observation:

I have played in a lot of Rec ball...I have officiated a lot of Rec ball (earlier in my career)...and I have played a lot of pick up games with no officials.

Guess what...the games with NO OFFICIALS are un-doubtedly a cleaner game and a more sporting game.

WHY? Peer presure maybe... a player usually knows when he commits a violation/foul and the player that commited the violation/foul usually knows he did so...thus, the call your own fouls and violations seem to work themselves out among the players.

I don't know...maybe this IM program would be better served to have a gym supervisor at every game instead of having teenage girls/boys officiating that don't know what end of the whistle to blow. That, IMO, is a receipe for disaster.

Save your money or get some certified officials to volunteer their time for the playoffs...but, maybe just have a "floor supervisor" at the regular season games to keep discipline, rather than trying to call a game with little or no rules knowledge and judgement.