Whack a mole

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by The_Rookie

My experience as well! As a young official, I started working some higher level AAU ball this summer and ran into nutty coaches. Truth be told I was taken aback at the behavior I saw because the regular HS season is not like that. I know it was a great learning expereince and I did npt handle everything right. To top it off my summer assignor was watching and he chatted with my partner and I whho is also a young official.

My concern is hopefully this one game will be viewed just as that one game and not held against me!

Well if anyone has any sense that you work with, they will realize the cesspool that AAU can be and is with many officials. Again if I go to a college camp and there are 2 or 3 ejections and the coaches are crying to clinicians about why they got ejected, then that is all you need to know about what happens in these leagues. That is why I said I doubt seriously that anything happening in these games as it relates to coaches is going to be accurately evaluated or set a standard for your entire career. I do not know about you, but here no one gives these games out with the intention to prove something. Heck the only thing that is considered in my area is often you want the most experience or respected officials working the title games if you can. But since many experienced officials either refuse or do not make themselves available for these games in the first place, this is often whatever officials are around works the best games available. And in the tournament I worked, there were many officials working games that were over their head from a talent and level perspective.

Peace

[MD Longhorn]

Seems I'm good for about 1 a year - never know which sport it's going to pop up in though. 18 years in 2 sports, 7, 3, 3, 1, and 1 in others. My first? a 5 year old boy in football. My 2nd? Same kid a few weeks later. My 3rd an announcer.

It got more normal after that.

[bainsey]

Originally Posted by mbcrowder

My first? a 5 year old boy in football. My 2nd? Same kid a few weeks later. My 3rd an announcer.

Okay, I'm intrigued. Details, please?

[tref]

Worked a US Junior Nat'l 12th grade Girls tourny last night. Team A played a bad first half (turnovers, missed layups, missed FTs) and looked to initiate contact on offense. The players didnt get many of the alleged fouls they thought took place & were down by 12 at halftime with a 6-5 foul count. Coach didnt have any questions or comments during the first half.

Im L walking toward the division line (our chairs at the table) & coach A yells, "BLOW YOUR WHISTLE DOWN THERE!!" Whack...

Then he says, "What? Im just TELLING YOU to do YOUR JOB!!" Goodnight...

Team B makes 3 of 4 to start the second half, Team A is fired up & plays a helluva second half losing by (of course) 3.

The parents are giving me the biz for the entire half, the asst coach says nothing to us, we let him stand to coach. No harm, no foul, its summertime.

After the game the asst coach walks up & starts the old "you guys decided the game" routine. My partner told him the coach earned his Ts. Dude wasnt buying it, saying how hey couldve went to OT if it werent for the Ts, yada-yada-yada. I finally suggested that he take his L like a man & walk it off. He complied!!!
It doesnt pay to be nice, I should've sat him down!

Team As players came & shook our hands even though they lost. After being heckled for 16 minutes, that felt great as it showed that the players knew we called a good game & didnt have it out for them. They obviously know their coach & a few of their moms are idiots

[MD Longhorn]

The 5-year old simply started beating the hell out of another kid, right in the middle of a play. Easy and obvious EJ. Was surprised to see him out there a couple of weeks later, and never saw him again after the 2nd incident.

The announcer was just a parent, on a PA system. Early in the game my partner actually had to tell him to stop being Howard Cosell during the play. The play was going toward my partner, and right as they handed the ball off for a reverse, the announcer told us all, "It's a REVERSE!!!!", tipping off the othre team.

Anyway, later in the game it was one of those plays where the RB hits the pile and the pile simply keeps moving forward, very very slowly. We didn't blow it, as he was still moving forward, when the PA guy goes nuts, "Blow it dead!" "Blow it dead! He's stopped!!!" (He wasn't). "GD-bomb, stop the F-ing play!" (still not dead). "What the F is wrong with you!!!"

Play finally goes down (I bet it was 15 yards in 30 seconds), and both partner and I go toss him. Turned out it was his kid.