Couple issues from the Coach's perspective

[steve33]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

Hi Coach. Welcome to the forum. Here's my very brief thoughts.

1) Have your book sit at the table next to the home book. It may make it a little more difficult to get some info to the bench, but you will never get that situation again if your scorer is double-checking the home book after every foul and basket.

2) Nothing you can do. Rule mis-applications happen. Unless you know the local assignor, you just have to live with it and move on. Sorry, but it's true.

Nice to know there are some intelligent officials out there who can just tell it like it is. I thank you. One last thing though, as bad as the officials were in Arizona and Texas, we recently played 3 games in Kansas, and all 3 games were, for lack of a better term, PERFECTLY officiated. So for those of you who ref Juco in Kansas, Kudos.

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by steve33

Nice to know there are some intelligent officials out there who can just tell it like it is. I thank you. One last thing though, as bad as the officials were in Arizona and Texas, we recently played 3 games in Kansas, and all 3 games were, for lack of a better term, PERFECTLY officiated. So for those of you who ref Juco in Kansas, Kudos.

Does this mean that you think that all JC officials in AZ and TX do a poor job?

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Does this mean that you think that all JC officials in AZ and TX do a poor job?

I think this means that he was unhappy with the officiating that his team saw in AZ and TX, and was happy with the officiating that his team saw in KS. He never said anything about "all JC officials" anywhere.

We're all a little touchy over the last couple days. Why?

[steve33]

Just to answer everyone's questions, we are a JUCO Women's team based in Louisiana. The team we played in Texas was D-III Mountain View College. Although, I'd like to sidestep some of those officials in Arizona, they are ACCAC (Arizona Community College Athletic Conference) officials. And no, not all of the JC officials in TX and AZ were bad. Just over my last three years in the area, they haven't been historically good.

And by neutral officials opinion, I meant questions I could ask referee's with no prior knowledge of the teams in the area

[umpire99]

I was working a game one night when my partner reported a foul sometime in the second quarter. The coach was trying to get his attention, but was unable to. At halftime, my partner went over to the coach to see what it was he had wanted. The coach said that he had called the foul on number 10 and that he had not been in the game at the time. I couldn't believe my partner's reaction. He said, "You are right coach. Who should that foul have been on?" The coach, who was just as surprised as I was, gave him a number. My partner then went to the scorer's table and told them to change the foul.

In a different game we had a very young official scorer. After a couple of mistakes, the coach of the visiting team would ask me to come to the table to check to see if the correct player was credited with the foul. After a stern talking to from me, the scorer did a much better job for the rest of the game.