Frustrated with game administration

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by ronny mulkey

I disagree with this philosophy of calling fewer lower level games UNLESS your quantity of higher level games prevent it. The experience gained from dealing with these "negative" situations will make you a much better official in the future. And, after you have gained all that experience, then you need to share this experience with the less experienced others as they come through. It's kinda like the people here giving you good advice on how to handle this situation - at one time they didn't know how, either.

Good points. Learning how to deal with those types of situations will help any official's development.

Jmo, but I think that the major thing that any official needs to learn is to not take personally any of the crap that comes your way. It comes with the job. Once you put on a striped shirt and stick a whistle in your mouth, you're a target, no matter how good you are. Except for your partners, the people that you deal with aren't neutral and unbiased, and you can't really expect them to act that way.