Summer Basketball, gotta love it!

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

This is the exact reason that I never use the "you coach/play, and I'll ref" line.

If you have the same situation with a coach, here's the line you use. "Coach - let's trade places. You come out here and ref, and I'll sit on the bench and act like a jacka$$."

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

If you have the same situation with a coach, here's the line you use. "Coach - let's trade places. You come out here and ref, and I'll sit on the bench and act like a jacka$$."

I just tell coaches they are too cowardly and lazy to officiate.

[GoodwillRef]

I assign officials for a high school girls summer league that starts up next week. When I sent out the schedule I told the officials that I expected them to treat the league just like the regular season and if they could not handle that I just wouldn't assign them games next year and I would replace them on all the games they have been assigned for the league. The summer is a great place to work on your game and get better...too bad some officials use is as a time to slack off and ruin it for the reat of us. Summer ball is the way it is in part because some officials don't call what needs to be called and all they are worried about is who is paying them at the end of the night.

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

I just tell coaches they are too cowardly and lazy to officiate.

Oooh, you know how to win friends and influence people!

[Amesman]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

I just tell coaches they are too cowardly and lazy to officiate.

The good people who brought me onto this earth were educators (principal and school teacher) and often had to endure "friends" telling them how easy they had it -- how they'd love to have three months off a year, etc., etc.

One of the big mouths' wives actually put an end to that one night, I guess, when she told him if it was so easy, then he should become a teacher. For some reason, the sniping stopped.

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by Amesman

The good people who brought me onto this earth were educators (principal and school teacher) and often had to endure "friends" telling them how easy they had it -- how they'd love to have three months off a year, etc., etc.

When people say that kind of thing to me, I tell them I'd love to get paid 12 months every year.

[Odd Duck]

Originally Posted by mbyron

When people say that kind of thing to me, I tell them I'd love to get paid 12 months every year.

Then work 12 months a year

Hey...educators are not paid enough. However, like I tell my daughter-in-law when she mentions the lower pay; "You knew the pay situation in the career when you chose to become a teacher. Life is all about the choices we make."

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by Odd Duck

Then work 12 months a year

Kinda missed the point, didn't ya.