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[collegeqb04]

I was refereeing a 8th grade basketball tournament tonight. Nothing major everything is going fine. Well the ball is bouncing down the court and no one is in possession of it. A team from lets say Team A literally runs a player over from team B. I call a foul on Team A's player and here is where the chuckle came.

The coach said to me: You can't have a foul if there is not possession. Good referee humor.

[JugglingReferee]

I had a similar situation.

Loose ball on a throw-in and A2 jumps up 5° from vertical to get the ball. B2 jumps 20° from vertical and totally crashes through A2. I call the foul and BHC says he's going for the ball, so it can't be a foul.

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

I had a similar situation.

Loose ball on a throw-in and A2 jumps up 5° from vertical to get the ball. B2 jumps 20° from vertical and totally crashes through A2. I call the foul and BHC says he's going for the ball, so it can't be a foul.

Are those Celsius degrees?

[refiator]

A6 is waiting at the table to sub. Dead ball, horn, sub beckoned...But A6 is wearing a black short sleeve under his white jersey (with sleeves very visible). Tableside official sends him back to the sideline due to the illegal T-shirt.....Whereby he sits and takes off his jersey and T-shirt.....WHACK.
Coach says "I've never heard that rule...Don't I get a warning first?"
Even Varsity coaches are clueless sometimes.........

[rwest]

"I'm going to become a ref when I go blind."

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by rwest

"I'm going to become a ref when I go blind."

Now that's funny.

[Bad Zebra]

Originally Posted by rwest

"I'm going to become a ref when I go blind."

...or the variation (actually said to me by a player's grandmother during a wreck game) "When I get old and I can't see...i'm gonna be a Referee" .

[grunewar]

BV. I'm new T far side of court. B has backcourt pressure. A gets the ball up court and while doing so A1 makes a pass to A2 who is straddling the Division Line. A2 tosses it back to A1 in the backcourt who dribbles into the frontcourt. B Coach yells "BACKCOURT! BACKCOURT!" Play continues.

A few minutes later as I'm getting B out of their huddle after a TO, I tell the coach A2 was clearly straddling the line.

Coaches reply, "Figured as much, I really couldn't tell from here."

Me, and half-jokingly, "So, why did you yell it?!"

Coach, "That's what I'm supposed to do, isn't it?"

Made me chuckle. Good guy. They won by a lot going away.....so, he was in a good mood!

[de la hoops]

Originally Posted by Bad Zebra

...or the variation (actually said to me by a player's grandmother during a wreck game) "When I get old and I can't see...i'm gonna be a Referee" .

When I was in HS 3 or 4 of us in the front row of the student section would wear the stripes and joke with (and rag on) the officials. During the girls state championship game one year the chant of the day was "I'm blind, I'm deaf, I wanna be a ref."

I still hold a special place in my heart for loud and idiotic student sections.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by de la hoops

I still hold a special place in my heart for loud and idiotic student sections.

Back when I was in high school (Class of 1971) our student section's favorite idiotic chant to the offcials was, "The ref brought his lunch. The ref brought his lunch. Eat it ref. Eat it".

[Welpe]

I had a girl's freshman game this season where I called a free throw violation on a visiting team player for disconcerting the shooter. The visiting team coach did not like this call because he said his player is allowed to communicate with her team. I said sure as long as she doesn't disconcert the shooter. He responds with you need to read the rule book. This was the cherry on top of a lot of complaining from him so I whacked him.

While we're getting ready to administer the throw in, I hear a mom from the visiting team yell out in her best mom voice "Come on ref! Two wrongs don't make a right!"

That got a laugh out of me, which I think annoyed her even more.

[Brad]

I stand corrected. I will now direct my attention to how horrible this rule is.

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by Welpe

I had a girl's freshman game this season where I called a free throw violation on a visiting team player for disconcerting the shooter. The visiting team coach did not like this call because he said his player is allowed to communicate with her team. I said sure as long as she doesn't disconcert the shooter. He responds with you need to read the rule book. This was the cherry on top of a lot of complaining from him so I whacked him.

While we're getting ready to administer the throw in, I hear a mom from the visiting team yell out in her best mom voice "Come on ref! Two wrongs don't make a right!"
That got a laugh out of me, which I think annoyed her even more.

They do add to the team foul count, however.

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by Bad Zebra

...or the variation (actually said to me by a player's grandmother during a wreck game) "When I get old and I can't see...i'm gonna be a Referee" .

You know it's bad when players' grandmothers are at wreck games.

[Mark Padgett]

Although this remark really doesn't have anything to do with refs, it's still stuck in my memory (along with 1950s television shows).

In HS, when an opponent was going to shoot his first FT, we would chant:

"SEE THAT BASKET, SEE THAT BALL - C'MON STUPID, HIT THE WALL!"

We didn't do it every time, but probably 3 or 4 times a game. No one ever chastised us for it.