NCAA Sanctioned HS Tourney

[OrStBballRef]

Got to love the weekend warrior/AAU coaches...

One coach interaction this weekend was memorable. I worked 9 games over three days. 2nd to last game on the my last day. One coach is intense as all can be, but for the most part stays away from us. About 15 seconds left in the game, which was a hack fest, his team is down 15 and shooting 2 as we were in the double bonus, or so we thought. Partner calls two and I administer the first which is missed. I'm about to administer the second one and partner blows his whistle and comes down and states table gave the wrong information and it should have been a 1-1. So we briefly confer and go to the arrow which is for the other team. I briefly call out it should have been 1-1 we are going to the arrow. Other team inbounds and the game ends.

We are grabbing our waters from the table and coach comes up to us and demands an explanation for the call. I briefly explain it and he goes on a rant about how we cost his team a chance for a rebound (whatever). Then he goes on another rant about how much money they spent for this tournament and we shouldn't have done it that way and we should have given him an explanation. My response was that yes he did pay a lot of money, which included paying for experienced officials who in this case got the call exactly right. We then head off to watch the game on the other court with him still fuming behind us.

I felt like saying" I'm sorry that call prevented you from losing by 14 vs 15" but I was laughing too much on the inside to pull it off.