Hey everyone,
I'm a new member here (although I have lurked for several weeks). As you might be able to tell from my username, I'm from the University of Maryland, where I got started with officiating in intramural sports. This past week, I attended my first camp at the Radford University. It was run by Duke Edsall and was quite an interesting experience. We were understaffed with officials becaue of several no shows. Therefore, in 3 1/2 days, I ref'd 45 games. This was my first experience dealing with coaches, and what an experience it was. Fortunately, I had several college officials observing me and giving me advice on how to handle the situations. I've heard people say that you gain about 3-5 years of experience by going to camp, and I must say that this it gave me a whole new insight into being an official.
This coming august I will be up at Cornell University helping out with the intramural program there, and ref'ing high school basketball and lacrosse. While I have already been accustomed to lacrosse coaches, this will be the first time I've ever faced a real life situation with high school basketball coaches in a non-camp setting. Do you people out there have any advice on what things I can say to coaches, or stories of how you have handled them when you were just starting out? Thanks for the insight, and hopefully I can be a regular poster around here.
TerpZebra
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Fri Jun 22, 2001, 11:00am
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