[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

In our local kid's rec league, when I train refs to call 3rd and 4th grade games, one thing I teach them is not to call "traveling", but to call "too much traveling". One season, we had a guy coaching 3rd grade boys who came to his first game in a 3-piece Armani suit, Pat Riley hairdo and with a magnetic clipboard. He got on the refs right from the opening whistle. One of them, a HS freshman girl working her first game ever, looked over at me (I was observing from behind the scorers table) while he was yelling and I just nodded. She T'd him up. He proceeded to scream at her for doing that. She looked at me again and I nodded again. She tossed him. He wouldn't move. I came down and got right in front of him. I told him he had to leave without saying another word or he would be suspended from coaching in this league forever. He knew I was the Board president that year and could make that stick, so he just left. He was suspended for three games and had to submit a written apology to both officials. When he came back, he was a lamb.

I'm sure he would have liked to have been coaching a travel team.

BTW - that HS girl went on to work for us for four years and did a great job. Off topic - she also was all-state as a softball pitcher her Senior year.

This is a GREAT story! Way to go to the girl!