Rec. Youth Tournee my 2 favorite quotes

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by NoFussRef

A spectator from losing team approaches me and says "You and your partner could not have been anymore obviously biased against our team." I told her to leave the building immediately. She attempted to attend a later game

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Mom comes up to us after the game asking for our names so she can report us to AAU.

Originally Posted by zm1283

A mom from this team comes across the court and accuses me of "Flipping off our players on the court".

Originally Posted by NoFussRef

I did have a woman from the crowd approach after the later game who said "I am not with either team, just an unbiased observer.

Had a hot, single mom comes out of the bleachers yesterday and asked me, "Can I get your phone number? You're the most handsome official I've ever seen." Wait a minute? Didn't happen. I think I dreamed that last night after reading these posts?

[Adam]

good grief. Let the "hot mom" meme die, please.

[APG]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

good grief. Let the "hot mom" meme die, please.

You know that isn't going to happen anytime soon...

[Adam]

Originally Posted by AllPurposeGamer

You know that isn't going to happen anytime soon...

A fella can dream....

[bainsey]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

good grief. Let the "hot mom" meme die, please.

+1

(I knew we'd agree on something sooner or later, Snaq.)

Here's my fave from a youth tournament: Point guard A1 holds the ball near the division line, and B2 D's up on him. A1 pushes B2 back with his elbow, giving me the easy player control foul.

Aghast Coach A: "He was just trying to clear him out!"

(The same coach later gave me a "you do NOT make that call at the end of the game" on a intentional foul, a bear hug.)

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by bainsey

+1

(I knew we'd agree on something sooner or later, Snaq.)

Here's my fave from a youth tournament: Point guard A1 holds the ball near the division line, and B2 D's up on him. A1 pushes B2 back with his elbow, giving me the easy player control foul.

Aghast Coach [parent] A: "He was just trying to clear him out!"

(The same coach later gave me a "you do NOT make that call at the end of the game" on a intentional foul, a bear hug.)

Fixed it for ya. Snaqs style.

[Rob1968]

After a 12U AAU game, a little old grandpa guy and his wife come up to me and he says, "Nice job!"
I respond, "Thank, you, sir."
Grandpa, "I used to ref . . .butI had enough sense to quit before I went blind . . ."
His wife looked like she wanted to die, as she pulled him toward the door.
I smiled and said, "Sir, you need to go embarrass your wife somewhere else!"

[bainsey]

Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap

Fixed it for ya. Snaqs style.

And that's why you shouldn't change the facts in someone's quote. The coach wasn't any older than 23. He was not a parent.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by bainsey

And that's why I say you shouldn't change the facts in someone's quote. The coach wasn't any older than 23. He was not a parent.

Fixed it for you.

26's point is still valid; this kid was behaving like a parent. And you have no idea if he was a parent or not unless you know him personally.

[bainsey]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

26's point is still valid; this kid was behaving like a parent. And you have no idea if he was a parent or not unless you know him personally.

You're 0-for-3, Snaq.

Nowhere in Gap's reply did he use the word "behaving."

I know that wasn't the case, because I was the only one on this forum that was actually there. You're entitled to your own opinion, but you're never entitled to your own facts.

You should really cease with playing this stupid game of putting words in people's mouths. It can't end well.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

good grief. Let the "hot mom" meme die, please.

No.

[APG]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

No.

Right on cue...

My favorite quote/situation came from a summer tournament two years ago. Team is getting beat pretty handily and players and coach are getting frustrated. On a particular play I call a pushing foul on the losing team. During free throws coach flat out asks me:

"How much is the other team paying you?"
Me: ....WHACK!

In retrospect I should of run the coach right then and there. I guess I was just so shocked that the coach would ask such a question. Not 30 seconds later, after being asked to sit due to losing his coaching box, he got whacked again cause he won't comply...goodbye!

To top off that game, there were two player T's on the losing team and we had to eject a fan.

[grunewar]

I had a player enter the game as a sub and proceed to get three fouls in a matter of a couple of minutes - he was way out of control.

As I'm reporting foul #3, he goes to his bench and says - "Coach, you need to take me out of the game, I keep having fouls called on me."

I walked by and said, "No she doesn't, YOU just need to quit fouling."

As I recall he didn't have one called on him the rest of the game.......

[shutupneff]

I had one last night that I still can't believe.

5th Grade boys rec league tournament, championship game. Team A is inbounding under their basket, and A1 is wide open under the basket with B1 behind him trying to remember where he's supposed to be. A1 receives the pass and goes up for an open layup, and B1 gives him a 2-handed shove in the back to try to prevent the easy points. Easy call.

When B Coaches figures out that I called an intentional, they absolutely can't believe it. Along with the predictable "Seriously?!" and "They're just kids!" the head coach exclaims, "They're only 10! Every foul's intentional!"

In my three years reffing, I don't think I've ever heard a dumber remark from a coach. Parent, maybe; coach, no. He even repeated it after the game, disproving my original hypothesis that, in his excitement, he accidentally combined the 4-5 things going through is head into a single statement. My only conclusion is that either he doesn't know what the word intentional means, or he he's convinced himself that every time one of his players has commited a stupid foul, that it was done purposefully to drive the coach crazy.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by shutupneff

.....he accidentally combined the 4-5 things going through is head into a single statement.

You realize he has enough room in his head for many millions of things since there's plenty of empty space up there.