Young officials

[BillyMac]

Over the past twenty-six years, it has been my personal observation that the grayer my hair gets, the fewer technical fouls I seem to give to coaches. This is not a sceintific study, just ancecdotal evidence from one source, me, but if my hypothesis is true, I don't mind my hair getting grayer every new season. It's only a correlation, not necessarily a cause and effect relationship, however, as my hair gets grayer, I have also gained an extra year or experience, and the coaches get to know me better, one game at a time. I've been to two schools in our local area, which services over seventy schools, over thirty times each in twenty-six years.

FYI: In September, 2006, I celebrated the thirteenth anniversary of my 40th birthday. I believe that Jack Benny never got older than 39. That's impossible. You have to be at least 40 before you're allowed to stop counting.