It's coach-jerk season already

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

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

Really? 11 years old?

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

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

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

Did it take you that long to formulate an answer?

[Welpe]

Party like it's 1999 I guess.

[Adam]

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

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

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

We should all be so lucky.

[Mark Padgett]

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

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

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

Is that guy still coaching?

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle

Is that guy still coaching?

I think he became a commentator on a major network. His name was Billy something - Slacker, Hacker, Whacker, Cracker, something like that.

[bainsey]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

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

I'm glad you said something, JR, because I thought there was a glitch somewhere in this thread.

[doubleringer]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

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?

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?

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by doubleringer

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?

I didn't have to whack him. I did something better. I got him transferred to coaching 3rd grade girls for the rest of the season.

[Indianaref]

Got to luv those ex-officials who now coach.