OT--I didn't like this

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by rockyroad

A lot of the little comments that posters put on this board are so outrageously unprofessional that they could only be used in a non-association type youth league.

Agree completely but I also don't think that non-association youth leagues are a place for any of those wise-azz responses either. You might get away with using them a heckuva lot easier there but that still doesn't make them right. I think that youth rec leagues deserve the same amount of professionalism from officials as we give to the higher, more structured leagues. If these rec leagues have a behavioral problem with their participants...players, coaches, fans...then we should be working with them towards a solution. And if we run into a rec league that doesn't seem that interested in curbing their behavioral problems, well, then let 'em get their officials from some other source if they can.

There is no need to ever take any crap out on the court, but there also is a proper way for us to deal with the crap.

JMO.

[rockyroad]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Agree completely but I also don't think that non-association youth leagues are a place for any of those wise-azz responses either. You might get away with using them a heckuva lot easier there but that still doesn't make them right. I think that youth rec leagues deserve the same amount of professionalism from officials as we give to the higher, more structured leagues. If these rec leagues have a behavioral problem with their participants...players, coaches, fans...then we should be working with them towards a solution. And if we run into a rec league that doesn't seem that interested in curbing their behavioral problems, well, then let 'em get their officials from some other source if they can.

There is no need to ever take any crap out on the court, but there also is a proper way for us to deal with the crap.

JMO.

Agree with this also. I was NOT trying to say it was OK...just that there is no way you could get away with that stuff in a "regular" association.