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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
Perhaps we should be discussing what age is too young to start.
I've never agreed with making someone so close to the age of the players the game official. The ability to control the situation just isn't there.
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I'm sure I'm going to take an unpopular stance but I'm going with Nevada on this one. I was thinking about this last night after reading the first few posts of this thread. Although I consider myself a young official (only 26), I think that with age comes a lot of great qualities that official's must possess to excel. The major thing that many younger official's fail to possess is emotional maturity to handle tense situations (especially with disgruntle coaches). It's just a fact of life that emotional maturity isn't something we are innate with from birth. On the other hand, I've met many "older" adults that still don't have this skill either.
My $0.02
-Josh