Big Baller Forfeits

[sj]

Originally Posted by Rich

Being good partners would've meant walking off with that female official.

Correct on this. They may not have thought to do it in the moment so some allowance can be made for the two of them. But they would have scored points with the clinicians had they done so.

The situations where it's needed to stick up for a fellow official can take many different forms. Both on and off the court. Recognizing those situations and then following through by standing up for a fellow official is important not only for the official you're standing up for but for officiating as a whole.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by sj

Correct on this. They may not have thought to do it in the moment so some allowance can be made for the two of them. But they would have scored points with the clinicians had they done so.

The situations where it's needed to stick up for a fellow official can take many different forms. Both on and off the court. Recognizing those situations and then following through by standing up for a fellow official is important not only for the official you're standing up for but for officiating as a whole.

Not being there, I don't think we can say that. Who knows what those clinicians told them to do. I'd like to think the clinicians themselves would pull the crew from the court with what happened, but they didn't.

[Freddy]

Who is the sponsor for this coach's team? Anybody know?
It's his own "brand" that's funding it, isn't it?

[Nevadaref]

Now we see Adidas caving to the bad press on this with the obligatory "we're sorry for our mistake."

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/wrong-d...161051463.html

Want to demonstrate something significant?--Don't have his team back for next Summer's event.

[JRutledge]

I wonder if the new action by Adidas is because they will be in trouble with the quality of the officials if Court Club pulls out. Yes they might get officials, but they will not likely get D1 or top up and coming officials.

Peace

[ChuckS]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I wonder if the new action by Adidas is because they will be in trouble with the quality of the officials if Court Club pulls out. Yes they might get officials, but they will not likely get D1 or top up and coming officials.

Peace

I think this is nothing but a corporate "mea culpa", trying to safe face, and not having any negative backlash affect their bottom line. I think they have proven that when it comes to officials, it's not exactly a high priority of theirs.

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I wonder if the new action by Adidas is because they will be in trouble with the quality of the officials if Court Club pulls out. Yes they might get officials, but they will not likely get D1 or top up and coming officials.

I doubt they give a shit about having quality officials. They just want warm bodies who will show up and not cause problems like this.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by AremRed

I doubt they give a shit about having quality officials. They just want warm bodies who will show up and not cause problems like this.

They will if programs stop paying/participating because the quality of officiating isn't on par with the level of play. Nike's EYBL has 5 stops and at least 2, maybe 3, of them utilize officials from D1 camps.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by AremRed

I doubt they give a shit about having quality officials. They just want warm bodies who will show up and not cause problems like this.

You would be surprised. There are tournaments like these that care very much about the officiating and so much that is why they have associations with organizations or supervisors like Court Club. Officiating is often a complaint when these teams claim they pay thousands of dollars to attend tournaments and then you have some JV official calling their games from the local association. It is a much better draw to say you have college officials or D1 officials working your games and why when you see these very high profile tournaments, you see top level officials working those games. Even the EYBL Girl's stuff we did in Chicago for years was assigned to certain officials, not just a guy or gal that never worked the playoffs or college ball. That is one of the reasons I was drawn to work the tournament. And this year was the first time they had a D1 camp which even that adds credibility to the tournament as to who is working the games. Because remember this story got big when Court Club pulled out.

Peace

[ODog]

Originally Posted by AremRed

I doubt they give a shit about having quality officials. They just want warm bodies who will show up and not cause problems like this.

^^This

The teams don't care either. Ninety-five percent of the clowns coaching these teams and the parents shuffling their players through the old AAU factory wouldn't know good officiating from a bullet to the head.

Most would rather have their games worked by overwhelmed patsies they can walk over versus competent officials who enforce the rules and penalize poor sportsmanship.

In summer ball, the inmates run the asylum (yes, there are the usual {very few} exceptions) and that's never going to change.

The eternal cry, "Come on, man, this is AAU" roughly translates to: "Can you pleeease just let us get away with things we would not ever get away with for even one second if we were actual coaches of real teams or players participating in high school/college games!"