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Originally Posted by Snaqwells
I'm curious, what level was this?
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This is a chuch league and it was girls grades 7-12. Our officials come from an officiating league that refs the public and private schools as well as the college level. There are hundreds of games that they officiate and I understand that there are many levels of quality with these refs. We usually take what we can get and being a girl's league we get the excuse that we get the bottom of the barrel with those that are just starting out sometimes or just aren't very good.
We have had some abysmal officiating and some that were fantastic. In my honest opinion, if I don't notice the refs during a game then I believe they did a great job. Last week the opposing team was running into my point guard and holding them with their arms out across my girl's arms making all sorts of contact and leaning into my players. It was a team with less skilled girls and their idea of slowing our dribble was to put the body against my point guards. Hand check didn't even come close to what they were doing, more like arm check or body check (and yes there was contact... I know that they are allowed to reach in). I approached the two refs at 1/2 time and very calmly and respectfully (seriously) described the holding that was occuring every time we brought the ball up the floor and could they watch for it. One ref immediately snapped and said "This is what I am going to do. I am going to call it really tight now. And I don't want to hear you crying about it when your girls all start fouling out". I told him that I have agreed with every foul that he called so far against my team and was just asking for them to take another look when play resumed. Pretty much figured I had ticked this guy off (the other one didn't say a word and just smirked at me the whole conversation). I try to teach my team to play D with their feet and position rather than what these other girls were doing so they didn't understand why the other team was getting away with it. Just frustrating.
The guy that we had this week with the incorrect call that I mentioned above also blew a blatant backcourt call. My girl got a loose ball and forgot where she was and took off up the court towards the wrong basket. Everyone in the gym knew it was a backcourt except the two refs that were just standing there watching. She realized what she had done and stopped near the 3 point arc then passed it to another girl who then lost it OB. There were a lot of non calls in this game with some heavy contact and because of the blown OB call earlier, the one ref's ego really got in the way and he gave every close call the rest of the game to the Red team. There were many that were blatantly out on Red but still awarded to Red instead of White.
We have had 5 weeks in a row however, with exceptional refs and I let the head of the league know every time so we will continue to get the good ones that want to do their job right. I feel we owe it to these kids. Thanks for letting me rant...
