This past weekend I was doing a playoff game for a house league 9 y/o boys. The leauge has speical developmental rules (ie. no backcourt defense until the last minute of the game, ect). For some reason the head of the entire house leauge is the scorekeeper for this game. The first half of the game was alot of sloppy play (but for 9 year olds it was high intensity). There was alot of contact mostly team mates running into team mates. Throughout the first half White's Coach was yelling for fouls. I ignored him. During a time out the Assistant comes over up to me and my partner and I tell him to return to his team. At half time White's Coach goes to the book and sees that we only called one foul the whole half. BTW, the Blue Coach is not saying anything. He now gets close to me and starts yelling at me. I put a stop to it quickly by telling him "Thats enough" He kept on so I told him "Thats your warning coach (with my hand held in a stop position)." As I go back to discuss the first half with my partner the parents in the gym start to clap in appreciation for putting the coach in his place (thats what one grandparent says to me right at the end of half) After the applause the Head Official (Mr. K) comes up to me and my partner and asks if in my opinon one foul call during the half was sufficiate for the level of contact. I state Yes. He told me I am wrong and starts to walk away. I stop him and tell him that he is going to listen to what I saw and not let him assume anything.
At the start of the 2nd half I tell the kids to stop flopping (these kids know what it is) and in the 4th quarter a kid floops. It is so apparent that White flopped cause no one touched him. I blew my whistle and gave the appropriate call, a T for flopping. Mr. K states that it is not a T and stops the game until I change the call to a basic block.
All during the game I see Mr. K and White's Coach talking.
Thank god I will never be working with or for Mr. K again in either sport (Basketball or Football). I loose respect for any fellow official that does that to a brother official. Does anyone else thinks that Mr. K was wrong or is it just me?
By the way, I have been officiating Rec, House Leagues and Intermurals for 10 years. Thinking next season finally doing High School. Any thoughts?
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Wed Mar 01, 2006, 06:04pm
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