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[TwoDot]

Montana has implemented a mercy rule this year. Up by 40 in the 2nd half and the clock runs unless there is a time out, injury or Technical. It has been used a few times but I have not been part of that yet.

[JugglingReferee]

Looking back on my playing career, I don't recall the score of a single game played, nor do I recall any win-loss records. I do recall the friendships that I've made, and maintained. Some of those friendships go back 25 years. These girls 20 years from now might remember and laugh about a 100-0 loss, but it will likely be as a side conversation discussing parenting techniques, career moves, etc. Just my 2 cents.

[ma_ref]

If you convert to centigrade, the score is a much more pallatable 37.7 to -17.7

[grunewar]

New Jersey Institute of Technology ends 51-game skid

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/sport...11286730.shtml

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by grunewar

New Jersey Institute of Technology ends 51-game skid

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/sport...11286730.shtml

Great quote:

The victory over Bryant gave first-year coach Jim Engles, a former Columbia assistant, his first win as a head coach.

"It's a huge sense of relief," said Engles, who joked that a friend told him he was "the highest-paid coach in the country per win right now."

[deecee]

California has a mercy rule -- 40 point lead in the 4th quarter we go to running clock except for TO's.

Like a 40 point lead anytime in the second half can be come back from in HS is absurd. The only way I would think that would happen if the team losing gets Kobe or Lebron in uniform half way through the third the comback might be possible. But even those 2 could maybe only guard 2 at best 3 players at a time

[Kingsman1288]

Now the winning team is trying to charge themselves with a forefeit and has offered an apology...

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200....ap/index.html

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Originally Posted by ma_ref

If you convert to centigrade, the score is a much more pallatable 37.7 to -17.7

Coffee spewage after reading this!

We have one league that has a running clock when a team is up by 30+ but only for lower-level games

[slow whistle]

I love that the coach says "it just happened"...100pts do not "just happen"....

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by slow whistle

I love that the coach says "it just happened"...100pts do not "just happen"....

At a girl’s basketball game, it just happened. You have to be pretty bad to not score a point.

Peace

[slow whistle]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

At a girl’s basketball game, it just happened. You have to be pretty bad to not score a point.

Peace

Agreed, but the winning coach didn't just all of a sudden wake up and go "holy *&*() we are winning 98-0!" There are things you can do to call off the dogs...run your offense, but drop back into a zone on defense and work on some things...but hey if they don't tell me how to officiate I won't tell them how to coach

[slow whistle]

Earlier this year I had a situation where team A was murdering team B - final score broke a local scoring record and they won by like 80 pts, but pressed from the opening tip to the final horn. While personally I didn't think much of the team A coach for doing what he was doing, as an official it is/was not my responsibility to alter the way the game was being called...one of my partners on the other hand came in at halftime and was visibly upset with the strategy of team A...he basically said in so many words that every time a team A player breathed on a team B player he was calling a foul...my response at the time was "lets just call our games", but sure enough he proceeded to whistle a foul every time team A even approached a team B player, we were 9-0 on fouls at one point (please refrain from the "why does this matter" routine, it mattered b/c of the way that it happened)...made for a very uncomfortable second half...what would you all have done in this situation?

[dave30]

I really, really wish I could have been working that game!

Once the team was up by 30+ and they continued to press.....every single steal that they made would've been a foul ! I would have sent a message to the coach to stop pressing and if he didn't get the message, then all of his players would foul out!

Also, if they were approaching 100 points and continuing to shoot 3 pters, I guarantee on a few of those, that I would have blown the whistle and signalled, "travelling"...."Coach, she took a couple of baby steps before shooting the ball ! That's travelling! "

I don't think one referee would complain about my "bending the rules" just a little bit!

Well, some of them would, but I wouldn't care!

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by slow whistle

Earlier this year I had a situation where team A was murdering team B - final score broke a local scoring record and they won by like 80 pts, but pressed from the opening tip to the final horn. While personally I didn't think much of the team A coach for doing what he was doing, as an official it is/was not my responsibility to alter the way the game was being called...one of my partners on the other hand came in at halftime and was visibly upset with the strategy of team A...he basically said in so many words that every time a team A player breathed on a team B player he was calling a foul...my response at the time was "lets just call our games", but sure enough he proceeded to whistle a foul every time team A even approached a team B player, we were 9-0 on fouls at one point (please refrain from the "why does this matter" routine, it mattered b/c of the way that it happened)...made for a very uncomfortable second half...what would you all have done in this situation?

You talked with him at half, albeit not very forcefully. After that, I'd just get in, get done, get out. If asked, I would tell him that my opinion is that his second half approach to the game is wrong. I would then not ask him about his take, either.