Captains meeting

[Welpe]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

A couple of years ago, I had an R give the whole black line speech with the players (hs game, not a confusing court) and then start to discuss correctable error procedure with the coaches.

I worked a football game at umpire with a white hat that went over the entire points of emphasis with each coach during the pre-game conference. He then proceeded to review the entire rule change on blocking below the waist and his opinion on what would happen with the rule in the years to come. I think I turned three different shades of red during that.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by tref

In a girls game, I always wonder what the dad in the stand thinks when his little girl lifts up her warmup to show the number on her jersey to 3 men

LOL, yeah I've thought about that before too.

Several weeks ago, I worked a middle school girls game and arrived a bit early. I'm standing on the side of the court watching the girls play around with a volleyball for about 15 minutes; wearing a trench coat. My bag must have given me away, but I thought it was odd that no one acknowledged me for so long.

Originally Posted by Welpe

I worked a football game at umpire with a white hat that went over the entire points of emphasis with each coach during the pre-game conference. He then proceeded to review the entire rule change on blocking below the waist and his opinion on what would happen with the rule in the years to come. I think I turned three different shades of red during that.

Okay, you topped mine. That's the equivalent of "we're going to call hand-check/three seconds/black line/moving screens and here's the new rules this year" guy.

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

LOL, yeah I've thought about that before too.

Several weeks ago, I worked a middle school girls game and arrived a bit early. I'm standing on the side of the court watching the girls play around with a volleyball for about 15 minutes; wearing a trench coat. My bag must have given me away, but I thought it was odd that no one acknowledged me for so long.



Okay, you topped mine. That's the equivalent of "we're going to call hand-check/three seconds/black line/moving screens and here's the new rules this year" guy.

Early in the year, going over (briefly -- no more than 30 seconds) any new rules that affect the players isn't a bad thing.

I do use the speaking captains: 1) Ask if ready to play before the start; 2) ask them to take care of trouble makers if I see it and if they are on the court.

Could have used the captains last week, but R didn't ask for them, so I tried someone else and he didn't seem to care.