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Old Sun Jan 14, 2001, 11:41pm
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I am posting this for no other reason but to vent.
I got to my scheduled game before the visiting team did, stretched, talk to the coaches and tell them I am recovering from the flu, but will give it my all.
We start the Soph game, blow the toss, retoss, and then they take my partner to work the Fresh game, so I ref the game myself. I pull in both coaches, tell them that I can't see everything speech. Game gets real rough from the start. Players are taking full advantage of the fact I can't see everything. I don't know if I should be looking at the dribbler or try to be sure the post players don't start fighting. I have things relatively under control, calling fouls left and right doesn't seem to be doing anything, but there is no blood. A player ends up getting a flagrant foul, and while he is shooting his freethrows, my partner shows up. we work a couple of trips up and down and then there is a time out, he comes over and tells me that I am calling his area, and I need to concentrate on calling mine, I tell him I am sorry, but working almost an entire half myself has already given me some bad habits(this doesn't stop him from calling my area though). Half-time. As we are walking off the court, he tells me that 24 fouls were called in the first half, and we shouldn't call so many fouls. I explained to him, that if he is going to show up late not to tell me how to call the game, and pointed out that I had already ejected one player, and I was trying to keep things under control. The JV game, I don't think he called but 3 fouls, which is fine, I like to let 'em play, they were good and they could handle it, but I couldn't tell is he didn't see fouls, didn't think they were fouls, or just didn't call them. During half-time of this game he tells me that the fouls were 7-3, and we need to 'even it up' in the second half, I tell I only call the fouls I see, and walk off. I did something I am not very proud of, and I know I will hear it from you guys, but late in the second game and with the game pretty much decided, I was at the trail and the ball went OOB under the basket, he called it one way, I blew my fox 40 twice, and told him it is white ball, the crowd went nuts ragging on him, he stared at me for 2 minutes before inbounding the ball. I know it was wrong, and I would never do it again, I certaintly don't feel better about it, but I am pretty sure I won't see him again, he had stated to me that it was quite a trip for him, so I don't think he was working his part of town.
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