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Finally, this was a freakin AAU TOURNAMENT FOR GOD SAKE!!!!! This is the place where the official is the last on the totum pole or last on the food chain. There are AAU Tournaments where officials are not even paid for any of their time. This is a place where kids spend more time about getting recruited and making a name nationally for themselves, rather than looking at how "sportsmanship" and conducting yourself accordingly is beneficial to us all rather than a stupid game.
A rather broad generalization based on small sample data don't you think Rut? Around here, AAU ball is fun and lots of us vets do it. The leagues have sportsmanship clauses and abuse just isn't tolerated and it's a great learning tool for us to improve the young pups. Sorry that you don't have good league support where you're at, but that sounds like a problem local to your area.
Besides, you have often posted that you never let a situation get to a point where an official would need to leave the floor. Seems a little contradictory that you would now side with an official who felt that it was so bad that he needed to leave. But then again, your pattern is to contradict yourself and then throw a verbal fit when challenged. Then you usually pat yourself on the back for being the only one with the cajones to have a different opinion and accuse the majority of living in a fantasy world.
But you are entertaining...kind of like the Osborne show on MTV. (no I'm not talking about Ozzie and Harriet) :-)
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