Bookkeeping Predicament

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

That was helpful.

If you take the game have some awareness of the competency level of the table and adjust accordingly. I 100% guarantee this scenario would not happen in my game, I can't speak for your abilities.

Maybe you and your kind only do AAU for the money, but there are officials outside of your all-knowing bubble who work AAU as part of off-season continuous improvement.

I don't work AAU at all. I stopped many years ago due to my frustration with the organizers who only cared about maximizing their profit on the event and want officials to work for 1/2 of the HS game fee, other officials who only cared about the extra $ they were scrounging up and took six or seven games/day and didn't hustle, having incompetent and unattentive teenagers at the table, who have been left there for 10 hours a day or more, the idiotic parents, and wacko coaches.

These events were not productive or enjoyable for me. They were filled with problems and undesirable interactions. Therefore, I got away from them.

Perhaps AAU events in your area are different. Perhaps you and others approach them as opportunities to improve. Perhaps the parents and coaches around you are respectful. If so, best wishes, but don't criticize my post for espousing what most people find to be realistic.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

I don't work AAU at all. I stopped many years ago due to my frustration with the organizers who only cared about maximizing their profit on the event and want officials to work for 1/2 of the HS game fee, other officials who only cared about the extra $ they were scrounging up and took six or seven games/day and didn't hustle, having incompetent and unattentive teenagers at the table, who have been left there for 10 hours a day or more, the idiotic parents, and wacko coaches.

These events were not productive or enjoyable for me. They were filled with problems and undesirable interactions. Therefore, I got away from them.

Perhaps AAU events in your area are different. Perhaps you and others approach them as opportunities to improve. Perhaps the parents and coaches around you are respectful. If so, best wishes, but don't criticize my post for espousing what most people find to be realistic.

So I criticize a specific statement you make, and you take offense. You make a generalized criticism of an entire group of officials, but I'm not supposed to comment. I'm trying to figure out how that makes a scintilla of logical sense.

Back to the subject at hand, no matter if it's AAU, rec ball, a summer league, a fall league, or any other venue outside of the normal, in-season scholastic season, an official who is out there to improve him/herself will work on game awareness such as at least loosely keeping track of team fouls and being somewhat aware when the bonus should be shot. It will help with their "real" games for those times when the table is less than stellar.

My association picked up a school this season where the only scoreboard is directly above the center circle and it does not display team fouls. Working that venue with the attitude that "it's not my job to keep track of team fouls" will not serve any official well if they have career aspirations. And this is not some obscure school that nobody wants to work. They made the state semi's in 2015 and lost in OT in the state final this season.

Originally Posted by BlueDevilRef

Oh my beating heart. I agree with BNR

Think of yourself as being slowly cured of your ills.

[BlueDevilRef]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

Think of yourself as being slowly cured of your ills.

Hahahaha. I lol'd. Thanks.