I "T"ed up the score keeper.....

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

I don't think you understand the rules references.

I think he understands the rule perfectly. 2-1 says that there is an official scorer. Singular. One. The visiting scorer does not seem, by rule, to be part of the officiating crew. 2-11 says the official scorer should compare records with the visiting scorer. It doesn't say the official scorers should compare records.

If the visiting scorer is not an "official" scorer, then he/she is a follower of the visiting team, who is allowed to sit at the table.

Personally, I wouldn't whack, but I don't think it's as obvious as you all are making it sound.

[ma_ref]

Originally Posted by TonyT

Tell the score keeper to just keep the book and be quite, if they say another word they will be replaced. I think that would of solved the whole problem.

I've done this before and it's usually quite effective. It mostly happens during wreck ball, and you get an over-zealous parent who disagrees with a lot of your calls or thinks they know the rules and while I'm reporting a foul against their team, they just keep shaking their head in a you-just-made-a-bad-call kind of way. I tell them that since they're sitting at the table they're going to be impartial, and if they can't do it, then I'll relieve them of their duties and find somebody else who can do the job.

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by Terrapins Fan

I made a mistake by "T"ing up the scorer. I see that now. But you can't allow the table to criticize your calling. Yes, he was a parent of a player, maybe it was his daughter that I called the foul on, I have no idea.

I agree. Get rid of him. He's not going to get any better.

Originally Posted by TonyT

Tell the score keeper to just keep the book and be quite, if they say another word they will be replaced. I think that would of solved the whole problem.

I don't handle it this way, as I've never had any success with it. He/she usually wants to argue the point.

I go to the coach. "Coach, if I have any more problems with your scorer, I'm going to replace him."

[doubleringer]

I agree that if they are a pain, just have them removed. I'm wondering what the climate of the game was up to this point? It sounds like you were fired up for some reason or another. If the game had been ugly, maybe there were other situations that could have been managed earlier? I'd also like to ask about the person on the book yelling. Is it possible you did drop a number (its happened to all of us) and they were trying to get your attention? I wasn't there and I know I've thrown more than my share of weekend tourney technicals as I was coming up, both deserved and undeserved. I just think maybe you should look at the game management overall to help learn from the game. As always, just my opinion.

[cardinalfan]

I admit I don't have any patience with someone at the table trying to referee, and I've replaced a couple, but I've never thought about penalizing the team with a technical.


I did see the PA guy at a local D1 university get replaced one night by the referee. The guy used a sarcastic tone when he announced the foul and the reporting official turned around and said something. I don't know what the PA guy said, but BOOM, he quickly tossed the guy. I thought it was cool, but the crowd response was, let's say unfavorable, the rest of the night.

[Terrapins Fan]

Originally Posted by doubleringer

I agree that if they are a pain, just have them removed. I'm wondering what the climate of the game was up to this point? It sounds like you were fired up for some reason or another. If the game had been ugly, maybe there were other situations that could have been managed earlier? I'd also like to ask about the person on the book yelling. Is it possible you did drop a number (its happened to all of us) and they were trying to get your attention? I wasn't there and I know I've thrown more than my share of weekend tourney technicals as I was coming up, both deserved and undeserved. I just think maybe you should look at the game management overall to help learn from the game. As always, just my opinion.

it was an 8th grade girls game. It wasn't close. The team that got the "T" was winning. The girl I called the foul on wasn't in foul trouble. I had the right girl. If anything, they were wrong. I had the right player.

The visiting fans were out of control with their yelling about everything. I even had to get game management to sit in the stands between 2 families before anything bad happened. ( that was after the "T" ) But they were bad before that.

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

I think he understands the rule perfectly. 2-1 says that there is an official scorer. Singular. One. The visiting scorer does not seem, by rule, to be part of the officiating crew. 2-11 says the official scorer should compare records with the visiting scorer. It doesn't say the official scorers should compare records.

If the visiting scorer is not an "official" scorer, then he/she is a follower of the visiting team, who is allowed to sit at the table.

Personally, I wouldn't whack, but I don't think it's as obvious as you all are making it sound.

You are correct about how the rule currently reads, but do you know the recent history of 2-1?

The rule was altered for the 2003-04 season to read as it does in the current rules book. This was done without any comment, mention, highlighting, or notification of any kind. The NFHS didn't even call it an editorial change.

Here is how the rule looked in 2002-03:

Rule 2, Section 1 Game Officials
Art. 1 ... The officials shall be a referee and an umpire or a referee and two umpires who shall be assisted by two timers and by two scorers. A single timer and a single scorer may be used if they are trained personnel acceptable to the referee.
Note: The official's uniform shall be a black-and-white striped shirt, black pants, shoes and socks.
Art. 2 ... The scorers and timers shall be located at the scorers' and timers' table on the side of the court. It is recommended that the scorer and timer be seated next to each other.


Just FYI.

[CMHCoachNRef]

Originally Posted by Terrapins Fan

No misprint. I "T"ed up the score keeper for the visitors today. He's the guy keeping the book at the table.

I report the foul "12 black Illegal use of the hands", and when I do, the coach yells ( and BTW, he is winning at the time by 10 points ) "She wasn't any where near the play" The book keeper yells " She wasn't any where near the play." Bang. T Because I am not going to have the score keeper yelling at me during the game.

We also sat the coach for the rest of the game. I have never "T"ed at score keeper, but I figure he is part of the coaches staff and therefore, coach gets to ride the bench for the rest of the game. Right?

BTW, 12 black was where I said she was and she did foul the player and it was only her 1st foul....3rd quarter for your processing info.

Terps Fan,
Was that the first comment that the visiting scorekeeper made to you during the game? While everyone is focusing on the bench personnel vs. scorekeeper discussion, if that was the first thing you heard from that scorer, I would perhaps have opted for a warning before removal.

Originally Posted by Terrapins Fan

I understand your point. My point was that the coach did appoint him as the score keeper and therefore, yes a part of his crew.

I used to coach ( assistant ) and many times I had to do the books because we did not have a scorekeeper show up. I knew I was not allowed to coach from the table and I knew I was not allowed to criticize the officials from the table.

As usual it was not one thing that lead to the "T". I officiated this team about 2 or 3 weeks ago at their home. they have 3 coaches. As I was passing by the bench ( the far end away from the head coach ) Someone yelled at me about missing a call. As I passed the coach, I told her ( yes HER ) that someone was yelling at me from the end of the bench and she said, "Oh yeah, that's my assistant coach" I told her that I wasn't going to listen to anyone but her. She and her "other assistant" sitting next to her, yelled constantly during the game, I was trying not to "T" them up and succeeded.

So we come to yesterday's game, before the game started, I asked "who is the head coach?" The guy says. " You're looking at him" I say, then I don't want to hear anything from anyone but you. In the first quarter, the "assistant" coach is standing and coaching. I go to the bench and tell them that only the head coach can stand during the game, and "she" tells me that they are "co-coaches" I say, no HE is the head coach and only "HE" can stand. So they say, you mean only one of us can stand at a time.....I clarify. they behaved after that, until the problem with the table.

Thanks for your feed back.

While it is hard to do at times, it is important to start each and every game from scratch (i.e. do not walk onto the floor with an attitude concerning what was said in the last game). To do anything else is unfair. Perhaps the coaches on the other team are worse -- you just haven't had them before.

[Terrapins Fan]

Originally Posted by CMHCoachNRef

Terps Fan,
Was that the first comment that the visiting scorekeeper made to you during the game? While everyone is focusing on the bench personnel vs. scorekeeper discussion, if that was the first thing you heard from that scorer, I would perhaps have opted for a warning before removal.



While it is hard to do at times, it is important to start each and every game from scratch (i.e. do not walk onto the floor with an attitude concerning what was said in the last game). To do anything else is unfair. Perhaps the coaches on the other team are worse -- you just haven't had them before.

Yes, that was the first remark he had made to me. But he yelled it at the top of his lungs. You can't have people yelling at you from the table when you are trying to report a foul.

2nd, I had experience with this team and this coach and it wasn't a good experience. I had 2 assistant coaches yelling at me during the last game that I refereed for them. I took that into the game with me and decided that I was going to eliminate that problem and I did.

My job is to referee, their job is to coach, not yell at me while I am trying to do my job.

Understand that I have been blessed to do mostly varsity games this year and we don't get as much of the yelling there, neither from the fans nor the coaches. At the 7th and 8th grade level you are getting a lot of parents coaching. Not to many stay too long. So, there is the inexperience factor.

But yes, I brought the experiences that I had with this team into this game and I tried to avoid the problems that I had with them in the past. I don't see how that is wrong. I didn't hold any grudge, just trying to avoid the problems.

I don't care who wins a game, I am just there to do a job.

[doubleringer]

Originally Posted by Terrapins Fan

2nd, I had experience with this team and this coach and it wasn't a good experience. I had 2 assistant coaches yelling at me during the last game that I refereed for them. I took that into the game with me and decided that I was going to eliminate that problem and I did.

Every game is a fresh start. When you walk into a game with this on you're mind, you are in a very similar mindset to a coach that thinks, "Oh, we had this guy last week and he screwed us on a bunch of calls."

We will not let coaches bring up things that happened in previous games, so we also need to go in with a "clean slate". This is extremely difficult to do at the lower levels when officials often see the same teams multiple times and even worse at the weekend tourney level where you are on a floor all day, but it is a mindset that can get you in looking for trouble when there isn't any.

[Adam]

At the same time, there's no reason not to be able to anticipate problems.

As I said before, it's no different than knowing a team has a tendency to steal the tip or back out too early on a free throw.

If you know a coach is a chronic PITA, deal with it early.

[doubleringer]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

At the same time, there's no reason not to be able to anticipate problems.

As I said before, it's no different than knowing a team has a tendency to steal the tip or back out too early on a free throw.

If you know a coach is a chronic PITA, deal with it early.

Agreed, this is a mind set for officials. Personally, when dealing with a coach that has a history, I talk about being aware of the bench during the game. To me, being aware of the bench puts me in the mind set that I'm not going to go looking for a T, but if a situation arises, it needs to be dealt with early.

From the wording, I get the feeling that Terrapins Fan was going into the game looking to T the team for actions in the previous meeting. There is a difference in being aware that problems may arise and looking for problems. I did my share of looking for problems early in my career and I found them when I did.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by doubleringer

Agreed, this is a mind set for officials. Personally, when dealing with a coach that has a history, I talk about being aware of the bench during the game. To me, being aware of the bench puts me in the mind set that I'm not going to go looking for a T, but if a situation arises, it needs to be dealt with early.

From the wording, I get the feeling that Terrapins Fan was going into the game looking to T the team for actions in the previous meeting. There is a difference in being aware that problems may arise and looking for problems. I did my share of looking for problems early in my career and I found them when I did.

I didn't see that from what he wrote, but ok.

[Terrapins Fan]

Originally Posted by doubleringer

From the wording, I get the feeling that Terrapins Fan was going into the game looking to T the team for actions in the previous meeting. There is a difference in being aware that problems may arise and looking for problems. I did my share of looking for problems early in my career and I found them when I did.

I am not "early" in my career, this is my 9th year. I was not looking for a "T"< I could have done that when the assistant coach was stand and coaching. I had already asked who was the head coach.

Would you really allow the score keeper to YELL at you when you are trying to report a foul?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

I didn't see that from what he wrote, but ok.

Originally Posted by Terrapins Fan

I am not "early" in my career, this is my 9th year. I was not looking for a "T"< I could have done that when the assistant coach was stand and coaching. I had already asked who was the head coach.

Would you really allow the score keeper to YELL at you when you are trying to report a foul?

Thought so.