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Old Fri Mar 05, 2010, 07:57am
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I am a coach at the local HS and Middle School and have been thinking of visiting a camp of some sort for officials for a couple reasons.
For me it was to learn the rules and to stop acting like an idiot on the bench. Twenty-nine years later and I'm a varsity official. I stopped coaching about five years ago. It took me years to decide which one to give up. The parents "helped" me to decide.
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Old Fri Mar 05, 2010, 11:13am
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For me it was to learn the rules and to stop acting like an idiot on the bench. Twenty-nine years later and I'm a varsity official. I stopped coaching about five years ago. It took me years to decide which one to give up. The parents "helped" me to decide.
So, you prefer getting yelled at by different parents every night as opposed to just the same ones? Bwwahaha!
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Old Fri Mar 05, 2010, 11:22am
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so, you prefer getting yelled at by different parents every night as opposed to just the same ones? Bwwahaha!

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Old Fri Mar 05, 2010, 12:54pm
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So, you prefer getting yelled at by different parents every night as opposed to just the same ones? Bwwahaha!
For me, this was actually one of the big reasons I got into officiating instead of coaching.
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