2 hr JV game and then things got worse

[icallfouls]

Originally Posted by Anchor

Most were legitimate fouls.

What Do you mean that 22 of 42 were legit? If so, the other 20 must have been suspect. Or did you mean more like 38 of them were legit?

How many fouled out in the 1st half?

[Anchor]

Originally Posted by icallfouls

What Do you mean that 22 of 42 were legit? If so, the other 20 must have been suspect. Or did you mean more like 38 of them were legit?

How many fouled out in the 1st half?

Frankly, I wasn't that involved in the game. More likely I was thinking "at this rate I'll see sunrise when I'm headed for the parking lot."

[Anchor]

UPDATE and Public Apology:

In the game referenced above I was pretty critical of the officials calling so many fouls. Tonight, I had those same teams (JV match tonight) in the opposite gym. Boys game (7 min quarters) took the better part of 2 hours; Visiting team fouled out all 5 starters and a 6th man; home team fouled out several; we could easily have called 40 more legitimate fouls; there were a bazillion turnovers; if I never see another free throw I've still had my share tonight; I cannot recall a foul that I or my partners called that I regret, but I can think of a number that I'm second-guessing passing on.

This is to offer a public apology to the un-named officials of the previous match. You guys probably had no choice--good job.

[Stat-Man]

when one of my friends became a varsity girls coach in 1999, we had an officiating crew in one of our early games that believed in calling everything. We won the game with 65 points. That was less than the number of total fouls called against both teams (68).

Since the article in the OP is in my general locale, maybe I should chime in and let them know they didn't come close to the number of fouls in my game mentioned here.