Working With a Homer

[bronco]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

I think "a real homer" in your words, is 99.9% a coaches' myth.

I agree with this, visiting teams will remember when a close call goes against them more than if a close call goes for them, simply because it fits the notion of a homer ref.

Although, when I coached a small-school JH, the refs were often teachers from the home school, since it was hard to get a certified ref to drive the distances needed for the JH games. It was almost always a question of poor reffing instead of homerism (is that a word?). I know because I reffed for that school the year before I coached there, and I might have been the world's worst ref ever.