Steve Alfords brother gets the hook again!

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by OHBBREF

I just hope that their backers aren't getting them cars and letting them drive to the games yet!

No, just strippers.

Peace

[Adam]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

No, just strippers.

Peace

and an open bar.

[Mark Padgett]

I have to tell you, I think the concept of a 1st and 2nd grade travel team is pathetic. Our local rec league starts at 3rd grade and just emphasizes learning fundamentals for the first two years with the objective of kids just having fun.

What happens when a 1st grader commits a turnover? Do his parents scream at him and tell him he just blew his college scholarship? I don't even want to think about what happens if a kid misses a "game winning" shot.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

I have to tell you, I think the concept of a 1st and 2nd grade travel team is pathetic. Our local rec league starts at 3rd grade and just emphasizes learning fundamentals for the first two years with the objective of kids just having fun.

What happens when a 1st grader commits a turnover? Do his parents scream at him and tell him he just blew his college scholarship? I don't even want to think about what happens if a kid misses a "game winning" shot.

I agree with you there. This seems rather silly for kids playing at this age. The ball is likely bigger than they are. Why subject kids that early to that kind of competition. It is one thing if you have a local league where kids play amongst kids they know, but to have a travel league? These games have to be a joy to officiating......NOT!!!

Peace

[Back In The Saddle]

At that age a "travel league" should mean a league where there are no travels called.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle

At that age a "travel league" should mean a league where there are no travels called.

And you should have babysitters instead of officials.....

Let the damn kids play....

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

And you should have babysitters instead of officials.....

Yabut, the babysitters are for the parents!

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle

At that age a "travel league" should mean a league where there are no travels called.

In our local kid's rec league, when I train refs to call 3rd and 4th grade games, one thing I teach them is not to call "traveling", but to call "too much traveling". One season, we had a guy coaching 3rd grade boys who came to his first game in a 3-piece Armani suit, Pat Riley hairdo and with a magnetic clipboard. He got on the refs right from the opening whistle. One of them, a HS freshman girl working her first game ever, looked over at me (I was observing from behind the scorers table) while he was yelling and I just nodded. She T'd him up. He proceeded to scream at her for doing that. She looked at me again and I nodded again. She tossed him. He wouldn't move. I came down and got right in front of him. I told him he had to leave without saying another word or he would be suspended from coaching in this league forever. He knew I was the Board president that year and could make that stick, so he just left. He was suspended for three games and had to submit a written apology to both officials. When he came back, he was a lamb.

I'm sure he would have liked to have been coaching a travel team.

BTW - that HS girl went on to work for us for four years and did a great job. Off topic - she also was all-state as a softball pitcher her Senior year.

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

In our local kid's rec league, when I train refs to call 3rd and 4th grade games, one thing I teach them is not to call "traveling", but to call "too much traveling". One season, we had a guy coaching 3rd grade boys who came to his first game in a 3-piece Armani suit, Pat Riley hairdo and with a magnetic clipboard. He got on the refs right from the opening whistle. One of them, a HS freshman girl working her first game ever, looked over at me (I was observing from behind the scorers table) while he was yelling and I just nodded. She T'd him up. He proceeded to scream at her for doing that. She looked at me again and I nodded again. She tossed him. He wouldn't move. I came down and got right in front of him. I told him he had to leave without saying another word or he would be suspended from coaching in this league forever. He knew I was the Board president that year and could make that stick, so he just left. He was suspended for three games and had to submit a written apology to both officials. When he came back, he was a lamb.

I'm sure he would have liked to have been coaching a travel team.

BTW - that HS girl went on to work for us for four years and did a great job. Off topic - she also was all-state as a softball pitcher her Senior year.

This is a GREAT story! Way to go to the girl!