Rec. Youth Tournee my 2 favorite quotes
 

1st game of the day close game all the way, partner and I worked it hard.

After game the a spectator from losing team approaches me and says "You and your partner could not have been anymore obviously biased against our team." Followed by "That was the biggest bunch of bullsh!t"

Insult me and question my integrity??? I told her to leave the building immediately and summoned gym-supervisor (game mgmnt) and they escorted her out. These teams play multiple games in a 2 day tournee and she was not allowed back for the rest of the games. She attempted to attend a later game and was told she was trespassing if she did not leave. Buh-bye.
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Later game. Last few seconds of OT, tie game. Team A gets it in and as A1 attempts the mid-court hail-mary to win B1 nails him. I call the foul and B-Coach almost has an aneurysm. A1 goes to the line for 3 free-throws with .2 seconds on the clock. B-coach ices him with timeouts in between each shot but he still sinks 2 of 3. On the inbound B gets it in and time expires. A wins.

B-Coach says to me "HOW DO YOU CALL THAT FOUL???"

(Not how could you call that a foul?, not how is that a shooting foul?)

He wasn't questioning the foul itself, just why I would call it!!! I guess he felt officials should allow a game to go into another OT rather than call em as we see em. I gave him the "Foul in the 1st minute is a foul in the last minute" speech and when he groaned I followed up with "You said it yourself. How could I call that "FOUL".:D

Reminds me of the AAU game I did once back in Iowa. Mom comes up to us after the game asking for our names so she can report us to AAU. I referred her to the tournament director while my partner attempted to engage.

"Lady, have you even seen a rule book?"

"My brother used to play for the Celtics. I know the rules. And I know racism when I see it."

At this point I rolled my eyes and walked away with my partner. The exact reason why even at AAU games ("especially at AAU games") we need to have a hospitality room to keep our stuff.

A few years ago at a youth rec tournament (The last one I did), we finish a 4th grade boys game. The losing team's sportsmanship among the parents was pitiful, and I'm pretty sure the family tree didn't branch with several of them. We finish the game and as we're standing in front of the table to start the next game, a mom from this team comes across the court and accuses me of "Flipping off our players on the court". I ask her how exactly I accomplished this in front of a gym full of parents, and if any of them saw it. Of course she had no idea and none of them saw it because it didn't happen. (She said a player told her) The tournament directors escorted her out.

In another game later that day a dad walked up behind the table after the game to tell us how we screwed them...blah...blah...blah. I just told him to take a hike and ignored him.

That was the only and last rec tournament I'll be doing.

"Like this, coach. First, I hold up my hand in a fist while I blow my whistle. Then I state the color of your team's jersey, then the number of the player who committed the foul while I signal his number to the table with my hands, then I give the mechanic for the type of foul, then I indicate the resulting consequence of the foul. Did you follow that, or should I repeat it?"

NICE! :D

(with the proper amount of air pressure put through my whistle ....) (law of physics coach)

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. Wanted to tell you that was not only the right call, but you called this game consistently from start to finish."

I told her "I know it was the right call, and thank you for acknowledging it."

Favorite quotes.....youth tourney....... I thought it would be cute things said by kids that would make us feel all warm and fuzzy. After reading this, I fee neither warm nor fuzzy.

It Could Really Happen, It Could, It's Possible ...
 

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?

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

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

A fella can dream....

+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.)

Fixed it for ya. Snaqs style.

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!":)

No.

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Right on cue...:rolleyes:

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: :eek:....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.

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.......

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.

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

You don't really mean he was under the basket/backboard do you? You meant to the side of the basket outside the lane right?

Of course. I went with the colloquial term for brevity's sake.

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.

I just wish I could set my ignore list to include posts that have certain phrases that never add value to a thread. Instead, I have to ignore users who perform similarly.

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.

Mother came onto court during a time out:

"You need to call more time outs. The mascara is running into the the girls' eyes!"

And out the door she went.

Changed it for ya......

And with any luck, while doing so I pissed EVERYBODY off. :D

I'm gonna try harder.

That made me laugh. Thanks! :p

Could have been worse. She could have said "the boys' eyes." :rolleyes:

Two words....

Me too. Literally out loud.

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.

Fixed it for ya.....

You're welcome.