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