OT: Working Volleyball

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

So? Let's see? Volleyball is not as physically demanding, but is just as mentally demanding, not more, just the same, as other sports, possibly including basketball? Basketball is both physically, and mentally, demanding? Doesn't that make basketball harder to officiate? Simple arithmetic addition. Are there sports that are not mentally demanding, but are very physically demanding?

Sure ... I think football is FAR more physically demanding than any of the other sports I officiate. Yet it's also FAR less mentally demanding, at least on the field (well ... most of the time - multiple fouls and a turnover can be messy). Volleyball, I think, is more mentally demanding than any of the others. Tracking, mentally, who can do what, when you have to lose focus on one team when the ball's on the other side - it's a chore. Physically, it just requires maintaining focus while standing in one place (as R), or while shuffling back and forth (as U).

I never leave a volleyball match huffing and puffing, even if my feet and back might be sore. But I definitely leave mentally drained.
I very rarely leave a football game mentally drained, but I definitely get winded at times.
Basketball and softball/baseball - in between on both.

In both cases, it's beer time, albeit for different reasons.