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Thu Aug 03, 2006, 10:12pm
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This is one of the funniest posts I have seen in a long time.
I needed that laugh.  Peace
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Thu Aug 03, 2006, 11:12pm
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I agree that it's gotten worse in the last couple of years. Around here it seems like it is worse in some leagues than others, worse in some tournaments than others.
Could you start throwing some of them out? maybe at least move them off the endline, and up into the stands? You might try talking to them ahead of time, or having coaches do it. In some of our summer leagues, they've started having the coaches do more to control the parents. It's helped quite a bit. But you've got to have game management on your side to pull it off. Oh, wait, this wasn't a serious post? you were just jabbing at someone who complained about the reffing... okay so there's some egg on my face.
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Fri Aug 04, 2006, 06:50am
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This is funny,
I have to tell a funny story that happened last night. I did a championship AAU summer league game. On one side of the court I kept hearing 3 second, 3 seconds 3 seconds. I thought i was loosing my eyesight. Oddly enough at half time I had an opportunity to ask the parents who is yelling 3 seconds I shouldn't have asked but I needed to just to clear my head. A woman turns and said me. I explained what 3 seconds was. She replied thanks, and then she was honest to say. "this is the only call I know". Which I tend to believe that 90% of the parents don't have a hell of beans knowledge of any rule of basketball.
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Fri Aug 04, 2006, 07:20am
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It's extremely bad and it isn't getting any better. It's sad, to say the least. As for summer ball goes, I just don't take it. For the most part in our area we are getting paid $15 per game if not nothing. So it doesn't take too much for me to show them the door.
This summer our association was working a small two-day camp. The officials weren't getting paid anything directly, however there was a small amount of money going to the association's funds. On a floor I wasn't working on, the parents got so bad that the officials just said they had enough and called it a night. Pretty funny. I don't know, maybe in today's society it's "cool" to look like an idiot and be ejected from a sports contest.
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Fri Aug 04, 2006, 11:03am
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I've actually thrown 4 fathers out of AAU games because of their behavior this year.
One of the gyms we have the games at, has 2 sets of bleachers and there is about a 20 foot gap between them for the table. For some unknown reason the top of the bleachers is the spot for these idiots. I'll invariably get 2 dad's shouting or better yet threatening each other across the gap. So I stop play chuck them and go merrily on my way with the game. On one occasion I had a coach ask "aren't you afraid they'll go at it in the parking lot??" Don't know why I just want to bust up laughing at that?
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Fri Aug 04, 2006, 11:30am
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I guess I'm waiting for the day, which will probably never happen and I'll never know if it happens. that maybe one day the kids will shed some light on the parents when they see their father get thrown out and just simply say, " DAD you must be an "A$$, don't embarass me again"
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Fri Aug 04, 2006, 03:56pm
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Fri Aug 04, 2006, 10:52pm
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Actually, Rut, i have to disagree with you. I think it's one of the saddest because it is so true! 
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