Can Refs Help Improve Youth Play (Videos)

[Raymond]

I tend to think that officiating at that level is commensurate to the coaching level and playing level. the mistakes made by the officials are on par with the mistakes made by the players and the coaches

[ccrroo]

Originally Posted by ODog

I especially, however, applaud your video work. These are AWESOME clips of youth games, and I mean that sincerely. You have skills!

Thanks. Not even my best work - lol
I use a gopro mounted on the wall. Then use VLC to zoom and slow it down. But then the quality goes down quickly when I record the clip on my cell phone camera (because I'm too lazy to edit the clip outside of VLC).

[ccrroo]

Guys -- I'm checking out now. I sincerely appreciate the comments and patience. I will save this as a reminder to never become a basketball official and never attempt coaching above the middle school level.

If I have a beef, it's with the rule book, not the guys enforcing the rules. And that's pretty weak as I don't know the rules all that well.

We will stop teaching the charge.
And we will stop teaching to play defense with feet and start stressing playing defense with hands. At the very least, we should be teaching what is shown in the videos I've submitted.

[deecee]

Originally Posted by ccrroo

Guys -- I'm checking out now. I sincerely appreciate the comments and patience. I will save this as a reminder to never become a basketball official and never attempt coaching above the middle school level.

If I have a beef, it's with the rule book, not the guys enforcing the rules. And that's pretty weak as I don't know the rules all that well.

We will stop teaching the charge.
And we will stop teaching to play defense with feet and start stressing playing defense with hands. At the very least, we should be teaching what is shown in the videos I've submitted.

Keep teaching. Kids that play sloppy defense and never learn the fundamentals usually fouls out of games pretty quick.

[Coach Bill]

Originally Posted by ccrroo

And we will stop teaching to play defense with feet and start stressing playing defense with hands. At the very least, we should be teaching what is shown in the videos I've submitted.

This doesn't make sense. You said the foul count was 25-10 against you.

So, it wasn't that they weren't calling fouls, and, you could get away with more physical play. The issue was that they were calling them on YOUR team.

Also, you said that you thought you legitimately committed about 23 of them. And, you show 7 or 8 videos where it looks like only a few calls were missed. So, out of 35+ plays where contact occurred, the officials may have missed a few? That's pretty darn good for the 7th grade officials I know.

Post the whole unedited video on youtube. Or, the first half should be enough. I'll tell you exactly what you need to do to get your team back on track. (Hint - it's not gonna be trying to get away with fouls).