ODD Sayings
 

What are some of the oddest hinges that your partner(s) have said?
While A1 was lying injured and being attended to on the court the remaining players walked over toward there coach. Coach was talking to the 4 players and U2 said something to coach to really tick him off. At the end of game I asked what he had said and the U2 said he told the coach that he couldn't coach during an injury T/O. He said he was told that by a senior official in his prior game.

The "senior" official must have been a soccer official. :D

MTD, Sr.

With magic spray.

Before I took the officiating plunge, I witnessed an official tell a 5/6 grade boys team they could not drink water during a 30 second timeout or else he'd assess a technical foul. :eek:

In the old days, that would be a magic sponge.

Such instruction was given when 20 second timeouts were first added under NFHS rules.

I thought those were taken off the market for failure to prevent. :eek:

What?
 

I'm having a normal game, neither coach causing problems. Near the end of the second quarter one coach approaches me with a serious look.

"In the first quarter we were ahead on the foul count 7 to 2. Now it is tied at 8 to 8. Why are all the calls going their way?"

Really, coach? I had a hard time not laughing.

"The other coach pointed out the discrepancy and we realized that wasn't fair, so we evened it up. It's what we do."

Had one particular coach offer me some notable ones today. Here's my favorite.

A-1 is dribbling in the frontcourt, defended by B-2. B-2 taps the ball, which A-1 regains, but his dribble comes down onto the division line. Tweet, backcourt.

Coach is incredulous, so I give him a brief explanation.

Coach replies, "It was a 50-50 ball!"

That one stuns me so much, the first thing that came to my mind was something I posted to this forum this week, and I wound up saying it.

"This isn't soccer, Coach!"

A new one tonight....

3:30 remaining in the 3rd quarter. I'm by the visiting coach who starts complaining that he wants us to call the same thing fouls against the home team that we were calling against his team. Not really that usual of a statement except for the fact that to that point in the game we had called his team for a grand total of 3 fouls....yes 3 fouls in over 20 minutes of play (the home team had 5 for the whole game at that point).

I heard the got to even it up comment as I reported the fould on the visiting team which was their 4th. The home team had 3.

C'mon Cameron, you gotta call it both ways! ;)

JV game, second half. We call a shooting foul against the visiting team, and on the very next possession for V, there's a very similar play, and my partner has a whistle putting V on the line. Immediately after the whistle, I hear the V coach whine behind me, "It was the same thing on the other end."

I think sometimes these guys' mouths are on autopilot.

And you thought,"At least we're consistent."

... she can on the box out
 

Working a girls jv/v game. During the jv game, home team defender goes to box out the shooter and backs her out of her spot,,,, moves her about 4 feet. I call a foul on the defender. Home coach questions the call. He states that this is a legal play "as long as it is a box out"....

I had this coach a couple of times. The same move is legal on the other end, too, "as long as it is a post up."

I just caught this...

Oh yeah?! I'll have you know, sir, I ordered some of that magic spray ("Spuni") for me and my assigner this year. That stuff was hard to find. The vendor was in Brazil, there was nothing on his website about shipping to the states, so I had to use translate.google.com several times to get pricing on foreign shipping.

It was worth it. The crowd reaction I got when I first used the stuff -- in Howland -- was priceless.

That's almost as bad as mine. I got "call it both ways!!!" about 4 seconds into a game once.

I got "Be Consistent" on the first call of the game.

I heard that this week and it was from the team that had 7 fouls in their favor to 2 fouls against them. I almost fell out laughing for real on that one.

Peace

Would that mean that ever foul we call would have to be a double foul?