Competitive youth tournament

[#olderthanilook]

Originally Posted by Adam

You could always ask, "What's your question, coach?"

That works well at the varsity level...the youth level - not so much. Just get incredulous looks of bewilderment. Youth coaches are a special breed.

Sunday morning, I had a coach yell across the court as we are heading the other way (I'm the new trail), "Hey, please watch for the reaching." I said, "They can reach all they want, coach." with a big smile on my face.

Later, during FTs, he asks why reaching isn't a foul. So I told him why. He was blown away. Then asked if it's a reaching foul when a defender reaches and hits his player on the arm while dribbling. I said "no". "But, I'd call a "holding" or "Pushing foul". His eyes got big and says that it's all semantics. Whatever, coach. I smiled and moved on.

But, I know where these guys get the stuff - during oen of my son's tournament games this weekend, one of the officials reported an "over the back" foul to the table where I was working the scorebook on several occassions.

[26 Year Gap]

Was it really competitive?

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap

Was it really competitive?

Padgett's alter ego?

[#olderthanilook]

Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap

Was it really competitive?

yep

[Rich]

You see officials who try to call the fewest number of fouls possible at all levels.

I've had games with fewer than 15 fouls total. I've had games with more than 50. My goal is to try to have a good decision for every foul / no foul situation and worry very little about how many fouls are called.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by #olderthanilook

That works well at the varsity level...the youth level - not so much. Just get incredulous looks of bewilderment. Youth coaches are a special breed.

Sunday morning, I had a coach yell across the court as we are heading the other way (I'm the new trail), "Hey, please watch for the reaching." I said, "They can reach all they want, coach." with a big smile on my face.

Later, during FTs, he asks why reaching isn't a foul. So I told him why. He was blown away. Then asked if it's a reaching foul when a defender reaches and hits his player on the arm while dribbling. I said "no". "But, I'd call a "holding" or "Pushing foul". His eyes got big and says that it's all semantics. Whatever, coach. I smiled and moved on.

But, I know where these guys get the stuff - during oen of my son's tournament games this weekend, one of the officials reported an "over the back" foul to the table where I was working the scorebook on several occassions.

"Coach, if you have a question. I'll try to answer, otherwise I have a game to call."