Not a bad day...

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I think there's good news and bad news to AAU. I know two Metro (St. Paul/Minneapolis) Assignors pretty well and thus can request specific courts/games. I have a 15 yr old son who officiates with me and all we do is 16-19 year olds. It's great experience for him. Good news-the quality of ball can be pretty good and a differnt style of play then would normally been seen in HS. Bad news-it can get very chippy very quickly. I personally think there are too many T's given most years-we should be able through preventative officiating and communication head off some of the problems before players/coaches go too far. That being said we've decided to very quickly bang anyone who trash talks and clean up the physical play very early. If the kids want to just play we're happy to never blow our whistles-if not It's been my experince the games get out of hand very quickly.