Where is the whistle?

[soundedlikeastrike]

HS rules, adult league, "the late game":

This is a very competitive league, with some former Juco players and the rest at least with HS experience. Just so's ya know, I was celebrating my 49th BD that night and was going off on em, it was like throwing it in the ocean, couldn't miss, having a great time, good close game.

Two very seasoned Ref's, one a state HS playoff selectee many times, finals participant last year, the other a he's been ref-n for at least 15 yrs.

Team down by 6, with 2:30 left in regulation, the trailing team will send the leading team to the line, pretty widely accepted practice.

Team trailing is scrambling, hacking, grabbing and fouling, in the intentional, "non-intentional sense" but no whistle/s?

Offense is getting "mugged" and tempers are escalating?

What gives?

This crew called a very tight, maybe even leaning towards "ticky tack" game for over 3/4's of a game, then, poof, they seem to dissapear?

Is there an unwritten rule that, when a team is attempting to stop the clock by fouling, it must be a blood letting?

One of the ref's even stated during live ball action on a pretty good collision between D and O player, with no whistle by the way, "don't get hurt now, you gotta work tomorrow".

At this point I went off (I am the coach and team captain) and yes a player as well. We finally get a dead ball and line up for the FT's I give em an a--chewing, "yes, we do have to work tomorrow, and those fouls your seeing out there, you know the ones you were whistling earlier, that were half that hard, call em, your losing control here, lets go".

I like to believe my "many" years of whine free play, got me off the hook, as no T followed. Yes, I made an official complaint to the assigning body.

So which is it, they wanted to go home, or...?