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Old Sun Mar 02, 2014, 02:35pm
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Originally Posted by Rob1968 View Post
"That's why you're doing Sophomore ball!" Of course, he didn't know that the night before and the night after I was on the floor for Varsity games for our largest schools' classification. My choice to help mentor our newer officials by working Soph/JV games is appreciated by our assignors, and that's why I almost couldn't stop laughing at the fan's comment!
I'm in the same boat (helping my assigner with subvarsity games, I even worked a freshman game this season), but, luckily, I haven't received such comments. Too bad you can't yell back, "Why isn't your son playing varsity?". We can think it, but saying it aloud would be, of course, unprofessional.
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