"I'm 52 years old, and in all my years..."

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

If you want professional officiating, then put on a professional show and pay the appropriate rates. If you want to run a typical AAU off-season run-and-gun tournament, then don't whine about the officiating that you gonna get. It matches the play.

It's nice to have lofty officiating ideals, but there's real life involved too.

JMO.

Or you can run an officiating camp where officials are being evaluated, and then you can dictate more professionalism in these tournaments. Even that has limitations as it takes a lot of work and people to pay money to come to a camp and work multiple games.

Peace