Horrible display of sportsmanship

[just another ref]

Around here the jr. high officials and the varsity officials are pretty much the same guys. Newbies do start out in jr. high, but we don't have much of a turnover. Jr. high is mainly Monday and Thursday, while varsity is Tuesday and Friday. The only time the two conflict is for tournaments, which may be on any day of the week. It is not unusual to see two guys call jr. high one night and the same crew call varsity the next night.

[CMHCoachNRef]

Originally Posted by Man In Blue

In this area there are a group of guys who work 8-10 games per day (times $15). They do a bad job but want as many games as they can get. TD doesn't work hard to get better guys.

There are Jr. High School Tournaments and then there are tournaments that have Jr. High School-aged players. In Central Ohio, we have a similar situation to what JAR describes.

The middle school games (at middle school gyms -- regular season or league tournaments) are covered by three different types of officials: 1. Varsity officials -- most of our games are done by varsity officials; 2. Very experienced middle school officials (they may be former varsity officials looking for a slower game, they may have kids in HS and want to work other nights, etc.); 3. Newer Officials (these officials are in the minority). These games are scheduled by registered HS assignors for the most part. The assignors have the referees backs covered.

On the other hand, we do have some facilities who host tournaments for middle school-aged (and other) players. These facililities are for-profit operations. Hence, they will pay about $20 or $22 for a referee. The Directors need the teams to come back and pay the entry fees. Therefore, life for officials can be brutal. Hence, they get new officials (who are just learning) or others who can't work anywhere else.

Is it possible that the tournament described in the OP is one closely resembling my latter case described above?