Could it get any worse than this?

[JRutledge]

This is why I need to leave girls basketball alone. I had a Girls Varsity Christmas Tournament just recently and I think this was the lowest experience of my officiating career.

Examples of the type of night it was:

Pre-game:

1. Suppose to be 3 officials, no warning just two of us show up.

2. No announcer for several minutes. This is not a major problem at all, but they did not want to start the game until he showed up. So he waltzes in after we have been waiting on him for 5 minutes or so and then does not have the starting line-ups for the game to announce.

Game Starts:

1. This is a game between a team that is ranked, and a team that has no business still having a program.

2. The ranked team is the only team that wants to play (Team A). Team B only has one girl that even cares and is the biggest girl on the floor, but she has no clue what she is doing in the first place.

3. Do we have coaches? I had to ask myself this question all night. We did not have an offense that I could see run by either team. Team B's coach did not say a word the whole night it seemed. Not to the her players, not to us about anything. I do not think that Team B's coach even subbed for any of the starters, and she had at least 5 bench players on the team.

4. The game was a blow out. This is not in itself a problem, but when we have a 60 point game, and the winning team is just shooting 3 point shots, just to shoot them, how bad can it get. Team A would have fast break opportunities, but seemed to pass them up to shoot 3s. Not just fast break opportunities, they would have had easy layups and passed those up, stepped back to shoot 3 point shots that they could not make. I think we had a stretch of 3s from Team A that had to be about 15 shots. I think they only made one or two. This had to have only been in a 2 or 3 minutes stretch in the game. This game was completely played like a Summer rec. league game. No offenses, hardly could see a organized defense, every though it started as a 2-3 zone on both sides.


I could not get home in time enough to be happy at all. This game was awful and everything surrounding it was that way. I have had summer tournmants that were better than this. Even one of the officials in the game before me, had an official that did the game in black jeans. Yes you heard me correct, BLACK JEANS. I could tell by the little jean patch on the back of them. And I will drilled about whether I could do a varsity game with this assignor? I guess I will chalk this up to experience.

Peace