son refs fathers game,legal?

[canuckrefguy]

There are only a few undisputed FACTS here.

By FACTS, I mean things not possibly affected by someone's particular point of view:

1) One of the officials was related to the coach of your husband's opponent.
2) Your husband was ejected for getting 2 direct technical fouls.
3) Your league has a rule that mandates a 2-game suspension for coaches who are ejected from a game.

There is nothing in any of the major official BASKETBALL rules in use regarding whether a son can officiate his dad's game. Only a league can have that kind of rule. And if it doesn't, you are likely out of luck. There OUGHT to be a rule, however. But sometimes it's tough to get officials (scenarios like this are some of the biggest reasons why), so such a rule would do more harm than good.

Your letter of protest can really only address one issue: whether officials are allowed to work games where their relatives are participating.

Whether the officiating was correct, biased, incompetent, or whatever, is, for general purposes, irrelevant to this discussion. Only people that were there can fairly comment on it - and even then, you'll likely solve nothing.

Agree with BBR, sounds like a lot of adults overshadowing the kids' fun here.

[Edited by canuckrefguy on Jan 11th, 2004 at 11:19 PM]