Help with what to say to partner

[JRutledge]

Originally posted by zebraman
Are you serious Rut?

I know I am going to do it again, but I usually have more Ts in girls games.

I have called a few coaches on Girls coaches over the years (mostly male coaches by the way), but I don't know as I have ever called a "T" on a girl player.
Did you ref the Girls Correction Center Leagues or something? Or perhaps you are reffing some "special" leagues for the girls who have failed anger management classes? :-)

Z

Well I am joking and I am serious at the same time. I really do not know the reason why I have givin more Ts, (well at least the emotional part ) but most of my Ts have been in Girl's Varsity games. Mainly because the coaches (Men and Women) tend to say more to you about calls. Boy's Varsity Coaches and players tend to be more sneaky and say thing under their breath. So you do not hear the comment or you do not know where it came from. Girl's Coaches and players (especially players) tend to try to be more vocal with you. Ask you questions or tell on other players. I actually had a girl this past year after calling an obvious foul tell her teammate as we were about to shoot FTs "that was a great block girl, you do that the next time." Now I came back with, "if you think you are good enough to be in the WNBA, try that there, but on my court that will not be tolerated." It got chuckles and laughs from the other girls and basicially stopped further action. Well not really, because a couple times down the court I called T on this particular girl. Oh well.

I have had the weirdest comments come from Girls games that I have never heard in any of my Boys games. I have never after a Boys game or during had a coach actually ask me if what I was calling was about them. I have had that happen a few times at girls games. I have never called 25 fouls in the first half in a boys game with both teams in the 2 Shot Bonus and had a coach say outloud, "I do not care about consistency, I just want you to call the darn foul." And in this particular game, every foul a girl was getting completely knocked to the floor. Not touch fouls, but instead of the coaches telling the players STOP FOULING, they blamed my partner and I for not calling enough. WHAT??!!

It has seemed to me for a long time that you can have the perfect game on the girl's side and you will get yelled at, threatened, rated lower and banned. Have the same game on the boy's side and you were the best official that they have ever seen that year. I realize that is a major generalization and over simplification of the issue, but I personally have had many more problems with coaches, players and fans on the girl's side of the ball.

Peace