On Sunday, I worked a season-ending rec league tournament. Five consecutive games of 8th grade girls. After four of the games, both coaches told my partner and me that we did a "great" or at least a "good" job and that they appreciated our work. In the other game, one of the coaches said the same thing, but the other coach told us we "sucked" and that it was the worst officiated game he had ever seen.
Guess what? His team lost by one point when my partner called a travel on his daughter with three seconds left that nullified what would probably have been the winning basket. She caught the ball in the high post, took at least two steps and then put the ball to the floor for her dribble. Not even a close call.
Oh well. I guess you can't please everybody.
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