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[refTN]

Originally posted by Rich Fronheiser

Mark,

Any holiday tourneys? I'm working the next two nights. Boys, 2-person (ugh). I'll be glad when I never have to work another 2-person game. I should've called the school and asked them if I could bring 3, but since there's a game behind ours, I didn't bother.

--Rich

Rich you should move to Tennessee. We get paid poorly but you would never have to see another 2-man game again in your life.

[Mark Dexter]

Originally posted by wwcfoa43
In 14 years I have never called a 10 second violation on a free throw. I have had one youth game that was running time (except for last minute) where the coach purposely asked the player to wait as long as possible to consume time. In that case I had to watch how long he took so there would be no advantage.

I keep a closer watch during running-clock games, but it usually takes more time to call the violation, set up team B for a throw-in, pause the game to explain the violation to A's coach, re-set B for a throw-in, etc. than to just tell the player to hurry up and shoot.

[Rich]

Originally posted by refTN

Rich you should move to Tennessee. We get paid poorly but you would never have to see another 2-man game again in your life.

I worked in the Knox Ridge Association near Knoxville for three seasons, from 1994-1997 while I was in graduate school at UT. Naturally, we worked 2 person then.

You still have to do GV/BV doubleheaders? You mention getting paid poorly -- back then the pay was really low, something like $60 for the varsity doubleheaders. At the time, the pay was identical for a single varsity football game in TN. And if you worked a good girls' school, like Oak Ridge, they'd run you ragged with a boys varsity game still to follow. You really earned your money there. I would like working all 3-person, but I like working a single game, too.

Ah, memories.