Fan Ejected

[Rich]

Originally Posted by johnny d

What fantasy world do you live in?

Shut things down -- overintrusive moderators.

Leave things take their natural course -- not doing our jobs.

Perhaps I should've locked the thread after the first five posts when it simply became boring.

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

I call bull crap on that bolded statement. Highly skilled officials who do lower level games elevate the quality of officiating. The causes the participants and fans to wonder why they don't get that quality of officiating all the time.

My usual HS partner and I did some 7th grade girls games the night before my season opener. I did it mainly for the cash I was getting at the end of the night, also to shake off some rust. "For the kids" was not on the list.

Worked 3 games. A parent in game 1 and one in game 3 told us we were the best officials they'd ever seen working their kid's games.

Did we run at full speed? When needed. Did we switch on every foul? Hell to the no.

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

I've found that "for the kids" officials aren't really into training and getting better. They are there just for the reason stated, for the kids to have officials available to work their games.

And yet they don't donate the cash they "earn" back to the program, do they?