One too many girls game

[JRutledge]

Originally posted by zebraman


It is not acceptable to blow the whistle on little to no contact in girl's games. That is doing the game a disservice. As you have said many times Rut, all contact is not a foul. The same goes for girl's games.

Z,

It may not be acceptable in the moral high ground, but it is acceptable in the real world.

I did a Girl's game about 4 years ago during the first week of the IHSA Basketball Season (which is only Girl's basketball at that time of the year). It was a two man game and we had called enough fouls in the first half for both teams to be in the two shot bonus in both halves of the game. The home team coach said, "I just want the foul called, who cares about consistency." Now all the fouls we called were fouls that players were basically players were knocked to the floor and the coach wanted us to call the little touches and we were already in the bonus. I in my years of doing boy's games, I have never heard that claim from a Boy's varsity coach. But then again, I guess there is a reason I know an Boy's assignor that told an official he would not hire him at this point because he did too many Girl's games in his schedule. And went on further to say, I cannot convince my coaches to hire someone that does a lot of Girl's games.

Peace