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

[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.