Originally Posted by Mark Padgett (Post 701582)

No - there aren't any in this league - other than trying to run up a higher score on the coach's jerk-o-meter.

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett (Post 701582)

No - there aren't any in this league - other than trying to run up a higher score on the coach's jerk-o-meter.

Originally Posted by Snaqwells (Post 701595)

No wonder the guy quit posting after two posts; Padgett ignored him for 11 years.

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett (Post 701615)

My point was the more things change, the more they stay the same. This was my first thread.

Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle (Post 701623)

Is that guy still coaching?

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee (Post 701589)

Um, Mark, you do realize that you just answered a post from a thread that your resurrected from 19-freaking-99, don't you?

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett (Post 562)

I've only been working this season since September, but the coaches have begun acting like jerks already. Today, I did fall rec league JV girls and boys (varsity yesterday). One girls coach, rumored to be an "ex-official" according to him (emphasis on "ex") kept complaining about my partner today. He asked him why he made a 3 second call from the trail position (so?) and generally gave him some crap. It just so happens that my partner is the varsity evaluator for the largest officials association in the state and certainly one of the best high school officials in the region. Oh yeah - he didn't like me indicating that a shot was a 2, not a 3, even though I was 2 feet from the girl and looking right at her foot on the line as she shot. He kept asking if I was "sure". No coach, I just make this up as I go along. In one game, he complained about over and back, 3 seconds, carrying, traveling, 10 second backcourt violation, 5 second closely guarded and virtually every type of foul there is. I'm sure he covered the entire violation section of the rulebook. BTW - his team was up by 30 in the second quarter (no kidding) and he was pressing. In the fourth quarter, up by over 45, we reminded him there was a league rule that you could not guard in the backcourt in the 4th quarter if you were up by 20 or more, so he told his girls to trap at half-court! This guy gets the oscar for best performance by a jerk in a leading role. Where do they come from? And why do I get them?

Originally Posted by doubleringer (Post 701738)

Why did you put up with it? There are rules that allow us not to have to deal with all this. If it was bad enough to post, maybe it was bad enough to whack?