Yes and No.....
 

I had a great game....I got to work (girls) Mater Dei vs. Jefferson (Oregon's defending 5A state champs). That was a real treat. Great ball (a lot closer game than anyone expected...the lead was down to 6 midway through the 4th before Mater Dei stomped on the accelerator and put it away), great coaches, great crowd. That was a ball of fun and even though I work more boys ball than girls, I'd take that game any day. :D

Fast forward a couple of days....

Sitting at home one afternoon with a game schedule at 7:45pm. When an unexpected snowstorm hits. The site is normally about 40-45 minutes away. My partner and I plan to leave early to account for the weather. He leaves his house at 4:45 to pick me up (normally 5 minutes away) and makes it to my house at 5:10. We hit the road. After a long and torturous journey, we roll into the gym at....

8:25-8:30...halftime!!

The guys who worked the first half were not even scheduled for the game before...they were there from earlier having worked for others who never even made it. We would have let them finish it but they were ready to go after having been there all day.

Second have went fast (not a great game).....in the door and out in about 35 minutes......then another 2.5 hours home.

Over 6 hours of dirve time for 2 quarters of ball....ouch.:eek:

Between December 18 and December 30 I worked 14 varsity holiday tournament games at six different locations in five different cities/towns. Attendance at these events in my area of Georgia has dramatically dropped in recent years. They are still fun to work, but smaller crowds means more individual "heckler" voices heard by officials and greater frustration with the behavior of spectators and coaches.

I worked several opening round games, several consolation games, and one really good girls' semi-final contest. Of the 14 games, only three were settled by six points or less and one of those three was a double-overtime game.

Most Georgia holiday tournament games are worked by "district partnership" crews. These are crews made up of members from more than one officials' association. Officials are often evaluated by state office personnel during these games.

A few days off before we crank it back up January 5.

What the H-E-double hockey sticks is wrong with you? Haven't you been paying attention to anything I've said? :eek:

I know!!!! Bad officiating!!! :-)

Next thing you know, you'll be claiming you've forgotten the first rule of officiating! :rolleyes:

I Beg Of You, Please Don't Ask, No, I Implore You ...
 

HoopsRefJunior: I can see that you have posted only two dozen times, so I expect that you don't know Mark Padgett's first rule of officiating. Please, if you believe in a higher power, and that the world is basically a good, just, place, don't ask what this rule is.

You know, Billy Mac, all of us know you are just baiting him.

tjones1 and I got into the holiday spirit on Wednesday at the Charleston Holiday Tournament. As a crew we had 5 player technical fouls and one player ejection. It was the worst varsity game I have been involved in.

We are way past doing/saying anything like this with this guy. I think I will do my normal pregame and then jump on him with two feet when he starts BSing on the court. We have got great instruction/guidelines from the instructional chair and I'm sick of seeing guys go out and ignore what he has been saying. We receive weekly video clips; I finally made a clip...for something good. :D

I heard about this game from my regular partner. I have them in 4 weeks. Should be fun.

I was in Bloomington/Normal working the girls side of the State Farm Holiday Classic. All games went great and the assigner for the post season was there to see our crew work and said we did a great job.

We know that you are blaming Tanner for that. :D

At least we can be sure that he brought multiple whistles with him and so wasn't at a loss when the first one wore out. ;)