Couple issues from the Coach's perspective

[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.