A coach even a mother couldn't love :(

[Juulie Downs]

What did your evals have to say about that game?

[Adam]

assuming the players aren't on the roster and need to be added, just start issuing Ts. This may be an exception, but I have never worked even a summer league that specifically discarded the roster rules.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

assuming the players aren't on the roster and need to be added, just start issuing Ts. This may be an exception, but I have never worked even a summer league that specifically discarded the roster rules.

I don't remember the last time I did a summer where there actually was a roster.

[Texas Aggie]

Yeah, summer and camp games are pretty freelanced, but if they aren't on the bench, in uniform, or arriving late and the same, I'm not letting them in the game -- at least not without the other coach's approval. If they say, "hey, there's no book," I'll say something like, "we're going to pretend there is and what you started with (or who came late legitimately) is what you have for the game."

Just remember, you wouldn't dare let a JV team (just for example) put in a college player. Why would you let them put in a jr. high player?

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by Texas Aggie

Yeah, summer and camp games are pretty freelanced, but if they aren't on the bench, in uniform, or arriving late and the same, I'm not letting them in the game -- at least not without the other coach's approval. If they say, "hey, there's no book," I'll say something like, "we're going to pretend there is and what you started with (or who came late legitimately) is what you have for the game."

The coach should look at you as if you are from Mars. The two camps that I've done so far this summer didn't have rosters and didn't keep individual fouls. Only the running score and team fouls were charted.
As others have already said, it's a poor idea to try to get involved in something which doesn't concern you.

Originally Posted by Texas Aggie

Just remember, you wouldn't dare let a JV team (just for example) put in a college player. Why would you let them put in a jr. high player?

Because the jr high kid may be permitted to participate. The camp could be for kids age 12-18 or something like that.

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

The coach should look at you as if you are from Mars. The two camps that I've done so far this summer didn't have rosters and didn't keep individual fouls. Only the running score and team fouls were charted.
As others have already said, it's a poor idea to try to get involved in something which doesn't concern you.



Because the jr high kid may be permitted to participate. The camp could be for kids age 12-18 or something like that.

Despite how irritated I was at the guy for his behavior, after a (very short but) good night's sleep, and a chat with another buddy, I opted to go with Bob's #5 & 6.

I did have the guy for a game that next day, and it turned out to be a helluva good one too. He ended up losing by 4 points (give or take) to the team that took 2nd at the camp.

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle

Despite how irritated I was at the guy for his behavior, after a (very short but) good night's sleep, and a chat with another buddy, I opted to go with Bob's #5 & 6.

I did have the guy for a game that next day, and it turned out to be a helluva good one too. He ended up losing by 4 points (give or take) to the team that took 2nd at the camp.

I'm glad. That's the intelligent route to take.

As for some of the silly things that coaches do at summer camp...

Working the championship game between two teams which had played earlier in the weekend with White winning. This time Blue starts out well and is ahead by double digits. My partner has penalized White for traveling three times. I'm the Lead tableside and the ball is on this side of the court near the sideline below the FT line extended. Player for Blue takes a jab step with his non-pivot foot and then does a cross-over step with this same foot followed by quickly lifting his pivot foot, but not putting it back down, and striding in the same direction as the cross-over step in order to get a better angle when throwing a pass to a teammate near the top of the arc.

The coach says to me, "You have to call that."
Me: "Call what, coach?"
Coach: "A travel."
Me: "He didn't travel, coach."
Coach: "I know that, but your partner has called three travels against us already, and you have to get one against them."
Me: "Sorry, coach, I wasn't aware of that rule."
Coach: "You don't have to be a smart@ss about it."
Me: "I wouldn't be, if you weren't being a dumb@ss about it."