Age and Experience
 

OK so this thread is simple...
Post your age and how long you've been officiating for. And if you want to "toot your own horn" you could post the level at which you officiate.

Il go first.

I'm 19, been officiating basketball for 4 years (since I was 15) and now I'm about to start my first year at the high school level.

Sigh.......:rolleyes:

My name is Damien and I'm 14. I've been active at all levels since I was born. I know where you live.

That's kind of personal, isn't it? :confused:

Maybe we can make it simpler.

What is your name? What is your quest? What is your favorite color?

1. Alexander
2. World Domination
3. Mauve

1)Damien
2)M&M
3) blood red

Welcome to the forum, CaRef. Not sure why people don't want to answer you, but I will. I'm 40(ish), been reffing for 15 years, and I do some D2/D3 college ball.

You have a big advantage over a lot of us in that you started very young. I hope your first HS season is exciting. Make sure you keep checking in here and let us know how it's going.

And how do we know that?

You could be a 73 year old, four foot two, 713 pound transexual canoe guide with two teeth that likes to play the banjo and hum the theme from <b>Deliverance</b> for all we know.

Or......we can have a poll.

Obviously, I'm not, or my name would be Jurassic Referee! :eek: :p

After the end of 1 inning the score is Scrappy 1, JR nothing.

We'll return after these messages.

JR gets pwned by Scrappy. :D

Grumble, grumble, grumble.....

I'm going to my room.

713 lb canoe guide? I think I'll walk.

pwned.....on the official forum - WOW - thats some serious geek speak....

For those wondering....

Pwn (/poʊn/, /puːn/, /pəʔˈoʊn/, /pɔːn/, /piˈoʊn/, /pwəʔˈn̩/) is a leetspeak slang term, derived from the word "own",[1][2][3] that implies domination or humiliation of a rival, used primarily in the Internet gaming culture to taunt an opponent who has just been soundly defeated. Past tense is sometimes spelled pwnt (pronounced with a t sound), pwned, pwnd, pwn3d, or powned (with the standard d sound). Examples include "pwnage" or "you just got pwned".


Next thing you know we'll be doing "First"

I didn't know that, Larks.

Somehow, after reading that, I now feel....whole.

Or maybe I just wet myself again......

First!

After a while, I hear it's hard to tell the difference.

self pwnage

u cud g0 bl1nd

ns

Phfffbt.

CaRef5,

I'm young like yourself. I'm 22 and officiate all levels except NAIA and D3. the guys make a good point about ppl making up whatever they want to and so some ppl might lie to u about what they ref. but just take it for what it is, the internet, and for the most part you can take ppl on here at their word if they ever decide to take your thread seriously and post their exp. which I doubt will happen. Good luck to you in your officiating endeavors.

Gee...I just figured JR "fatfingered" the p instead of the o on his keyboard.:confused:

:rolleyes:

Really??? You are saying that you work D1, NBA, D-league, D2, and international (FIBA) ball, and sixth grade girls? :confused:

Must be in southern California.

Please, think of the kittens.

Exhibit A:
There are some inside jokes about which I'd rather remain ignorant.

Deer Pwnage

http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture...erek/pwned.jpg

If you check various sources you will find his name in box scores.

I didn't think they published box scores for the 4' and under leagues? :eek:

isn't the 4" and under league where the guys have to self-pwn?

Regardless of what type of league it is, call it both ways (metric?)

Exactly. Take the term "Varsity", for example. There are people who say they work "Varsity" when, in reality, the have never worked an official HS "Varsity" game. The term is used very loosely....to refer to games with Varsity-aged players, rec games with players who have played on a "Varsity" teams, or even games that some rec. leagues call "Varsity" with no connection whatsoever with what most people consider to be "Varsity".

How do you know what a person has really worked? Hard to tell. However, when someone claims to have worked high level games and tends to throw around that info, chances are that they're being liberal with the description...worked a rec. league or summer game with a couple high-level players. Most people who really work legitimate college games don't go around advertising it all the time.

OK so i started this thread HOPING some "officials" on this website could take it a bit seriously... obviously that didnt happen especially with the first few replies that were posted....

Anywho, for those who tried to take it seriously... thanks.

At least you got part of it right, JR. :cool:

Don't worry about how old people are. That goes for here and for life. It's not important.

It also makes no matter what level you officiate. There are top, bottom and average officials at all levels.

Read the forum regularly. You'll soon know who you can learn from and who's full of crap. And don't think for one minute that you can dictate who others post. That's not up to you.

Good luck and welcome!

Just for the record, I took it as seriously as it deserved to be taken.

Keep on hating.

Don't hate the player...

Just for the record I met btaylor64 at camp a couple years ago when he was about 20 years old. He is a nice kid and he does work games that can easily be looked up on the internet. I also believe he never worked varsity HS ball. Not everyone follows the same path to success.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

That was great Snags! :p

Well, first of all if you work for the NBA, you more often than not work in either the NBA or the NBA D-League. Only guys who are b/w their 1-4 yr. in the NBA even work in the NBA D-League as well so you can strike the NBA from that list.

Since I live in the U.S. it would be highly unlikely that I would work FIBA, so you can scratch that one as well. Everything else seems to be right on.;)

Why?:confused:

Quite a few U.S. D1 and NBA oficials have also obtained a FIBA rating and have worked FIBA tournaments over the years. To do so, you have to meet FIBA requirements re: camp evaluation, exams passed, age restrictions, etc.
It ain't that easy in the larger countries to obtain a FIBA rating and be qualified for international games.

You are not fully accurate. There are plenty of officials who work the D-League, but do not yet work in the NBA. Where you are correct is that once an official is hired at the NBA level, he works a split schedule in both the D-League and the NBA for his first four years.

I agree with you completely with your first sentence and we are just getting into semantics here, but I don't know if you meant that once a guy gets hired at the NBA level that he works a 50/50 split schedule for his first 4 yrs. That statement would be incorrect. Their first yr. in the NBA it is more like an 80/20 and maybe a 70/30 at most. I know this is the internet and not everyone can be trusted with their information but trust me(redundant, I know) when I say i know more than a little bit about this area.

Never claimed that it was 50/50. The newer guys do work more D-League games, but with only 60 referees they still get a decent number of NBA assignments.

Since you know how the NBA system works, check where one of the four group supervisors for the referees lives. ;)

Uhm....this needs some work. It needs to be the first post of a thread.

Props to Juggles for using pwn. Now all you need is a thread comprised soley of AOL speak and this thread will be cemented in the annals of Hades. ;)

Hey, Jurassic, how do I become an esteemed (or is it steamed? I never got that clarified) member of the peanut gallery? Do I need to purchase a silt and mud stamp?

So, you're saying you ref at the D2 and D1 level? Just clarifying.

BTW, I'm 65 (as of this past May), I officiated for 22 years (basket ball) and 27 years (soccer), and my highest level in both sports was HS varsity. I say "was" as I no longer officiate. It came down to a choice of replacing both knees, or continue officiating. I chose to keep my current knees, even though going up a long flight of stairs causes me to periodically learn new "forms of expression", as in &%^*!!! that hurts!

His D1 supervisor also runs a D2 conference.

Great thread. Thought there was the danger of it turning into OOOA or something like that.

sorry once again it's semantics, but I meant the new guys get 80% nba games and 20% D-League games. Once they get hired they always work way more nba games than D-League games. What does where one of the supervisors live have to do with anything?

Yep, that is right again, but I now see how my post was a bit unclear. I was saying that a guy in his 3rd year with the NBA will work more games at that level than someone in his 1st year. Of course, both will still work games in the D-League.

Think about it for a bit. ;)

His name shows up on this website:
http://statsheet.com/mcb/referees/browse
Before they started to update it, it showed him doing about 4 games in a very small D1 conference. I forgot which one but it doesn't matter.

Interestingly enough, his name doesn't show up on this site though:
http://www.bbstate.com/officials/
That is possibly just an oversight.

Note also that the immortal Bhuck Elics shows up on both sites.

My take - I get what he was trying to do - intro himself, maybe get a feel for who is all on here. The reality - there are many on here that wont say. If you are working D1 or NBA - chances are you aren't posting here. The stakes are higher than ever and getting hired includes most likely your googleability.

An additional point is why not ask for weight and what high school we graduated from? This isnt a social board, its a rules and mechanics board. We talk basketball....1 annual baseball thread....and sometimes squirrels.

I agree with the former poster that said it doesn't matter how old you are and it's kind of taboo to bring it up. Im sure officials lead men's demographics in men's hair dye purchases if you know what I mean.

So age wont be discussed

Level - A - doesn't matter / can get someone in trouble and B - wont be discussed because in general, most of the good ones dont go throwing around what they are working. It comes off arrogant. Dont get me wrong, I was talking with a big hitter here in Cincy today and he LOVES to talk about his schedule so there are some out there that will.

Thus we have a thread that has disintegrated into pwnage and FIRST.

Having said all that.....

SECOND!!

Thanks, Jurrasic. I was just curious because of the way in which he posted. BTW, those are 2 interesting links. I found a couple of guys listed that I did some HS ball with and 1 individual shows up on one site with "1" game, and "115" games on the other site.

Good way to put it... just wanted to get a bit of demographic out of this thread

1. Skippy Weaselpants
2. Get Earl Strom deified
3. Off-color