Fight in HS girls game

[deecee]

Originally Posted by RefBob

This has been my rookie year, so I have certainly appreciated the veteran advice. My question is should the one official have intervened to try to break up the fight? Especially to the point of ending up on the floor, on top of the players, trying to pull them apart? I always thought that physically intervening in a fight is the last thing that an official wanted to do. Thanks.

I will try to intervene in the early stages and IF I think I have a chance. Once it appears that it's out of my control, I'm out.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by deecee

I will try to intervene in the early stages and if I think I have a chance.

Against high school girls? C'mon deecee, man up.

(I wouldn't go near that scrum with a thirty-nine and a half foot pole (with apologies to Dr. Seuss).)

[Bad Zebra]

Wow...that's ugly. And to quote the movie Anchorman..."That escalated really quickly". I've watched the video three times and I'm trying to decide whether the L did the right thing by jumping on the pile early to try to stop it. In all likelihood, he probably prevented some injuries...those three looked like they were going to tear each other apart. I'd be interested to know how the State viewed his response. His partners seemed to do I good job keeping the benches out of the fray but I wonder if they were able to get all the numbers of participants.

I honestly don't think I would have jumped in that way...especially a girls game. With cameras everywhere and lawyers aplenty, somebody would look to extract a pound of flesh and the officials are always an easy target.

[Hawkeyes]

Originally Posted by Bad Zebra

I honestly don't think I would have jumped in that way...especially a girls game. With cameras everywhere and lawyers aplenty, somebody would look to extract a pound of flesh and the officials are always an easy target.

These situations can be complicated, and videos like this may not help our ability to recruit young and new officials...
TBS: Reasonable minds can consider a scenario where their own kid were being beaten during a basketball game by an opponent; and how they'd choose to deal with the adults closest to the action and/or the adults responsible for the safety, fairness and sportsmanship of the game.
No weapons or expert martial artist involved here - just high school kids.


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