Funny things you hear from coaches and your partners..........

[MCJB Ump]

Just after requesting a full time out.....

Coach: How can we have 14 fouls and they only have 4??

Me: Coach, tell your kids to quit fouling.

Coach: What???????????????????????

Me: Tell your kids to quit fouling.


Time out ends, team breaks the huddle with "1 2 3...........NO FOULS!!"

[whistleone]

Coach: "It sure is getting rough down low."
Official: "I know. I sure wouldn't want to be in there!"

[shave-tail]

Young official talking to my daughter, she is on defense:

Young Official: Don't reach.....Don't reach....tweet.....I told you not to reach.
Daughter: Reachin' ain't a foul, touchin' is a foul.
Young Official: Then smiles and reports the foul.

By the way she fouled.

[hoosierref]

Player: "But I did not hold or pull on his jersey!"

Me: "So that number in your hand just jumped off his uniform?"

[Mark Padgett]

Best one from a partner all season, and she is a HS senior working a rec game with me just last week:

Coach: (after a game in which only 5 fouls were called) "No fouls? We took a lot of elbows out there."

Partner: "Well you'd better give them back. We can't have kids going around without elbows!"

[Overnbach]

Someone here can probably tell me where this came from. As I recall the story, there was a foul called on A1 just seconds after the game started. Coach B said, "Thanks, he's been doing that all night!"

Still makes me chuckle, years after I first heard it.

[just another ref]

During the pregame conference I always say something about when the timeout request by the coach will be granted. "I have to see that it's you making the request or I have to be able to recognize your voice, at least." Early in the game, home coach bellowed out some little silly observation about a call. I gave him an inquiring look and he said, "Wanted to be sure you were able to recognize my voice."

[mcdanrd]

Originally Posted by shave-tail

Young official talking to my daughter, she is on defense:
Daughter: Reachin' AIN'T a foul, touchin' is a foul.
By the way she fouled.

She should be benched for such disregard of the English language.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by mcdanrd

She should be benched for such disregard of the English language.

Yeah, some people's kids....

[socalreff]

I heard this from a partner this year.
His daughter was home on break from college where she plays and is the captain of her team. This is what she asked her dad:
"Why is it that the longer the captain's meeting is, the worse the officiating?"
I thought this was hilarious and has quite a bit of validity.

[fullor30]

Originally Posted by socalreff

I heard this from a partner this year.
His daughter was home on break from college where she plays and is the captain of her team. This is what she asked her dad:
"Why is it that the longer the captain's meeting is, the worse the officiating?"
I thought this was hilarious and has quite a bit of validity.

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