AAU Fun.

[JRutledge]

Well after the coach was thrown out, and the game was over. As I stated earlier my partner and I went into a far corner to avoid any confrontation in any way.

Two of the coaches come over and start talking to us. The coach that got thrown out talks to my partner, the assistant tries to talk to me.

I was precided to be givin a lecture about officiating from two complete idiots that do not know what a "correctable error" is. The other coach or assistant that was talking to me starting telling me about my commentment to officiating. Then he made this comment that almost had me burst out in complete laughter, "this is your profession so you need to be more commented to it." I then looked at my partner and said, "This is my profession? I guess I make $150,000 a year doing AAU game?" This did nothing but make him upset because he proceeded to get personal with me (which I found funny BTW) about my commentment and competence as an official. He looked at my shirt and saw that it had no patches on it. Then he started making a total issue out of that. For people that do not live in Illinois, High School Officials have to wear a State patch and a Sportsmanship patch on both shoulders. I was wearing neither mainly because this was not a HS game. I do college and was wearing one of my college shirts. So he tried to make an issue out of this and told me how horrible I was and that I should be more committed to my "profession."

I would not recommend that anyone engage with any coach. Not that I was trying to, but it was extreamely funny to me and I had to laugh a little. Especially from individuals that did not understand or questions that I asked, "are you questioning my intergrity?"

It was just fun and gives me another reason to stay home when called to do these games. These games do nothing for you and only frustrate the hell out of you.

Peace