Sunglasses Technical Foul

[Stat-Man]

Originally Posted by johnny d

Not a chance in the world I am working a game at any level for free other than camp games. I would not be available for scrimmages. No way am I leaving work early or taking away from family time to work a game for free.

Here, newer officials have the chance to officiate at pre-season scrimmages for experience and feedback from veteran officials and/or association trainers.

Last year, I signed up for the two-person Saturday scrimmage so I could get feedback on my strengths and areas of improvement. I found the experience largely positive.

The following weekend, my assignor asked me to attend a scrimmage where he'd do something similar with his first and second-year officials. I wasn't expecting it to be a varsity scrimmage given the fact some of the officials had yet to officiate an actual game.

At that scrimmage, I had a coach disagree with a no-call and tell me "Blow the d--- whistle." I immediately whacked him... only to have my partner and the veteran official tell me after the period ended that I shouldn't be T'ing coaches at a scrimmage. I wouldn't let a coach do it in a game, and I don't see why a scrimmage should be any different in that regard.