Basketball only?

Mark Padgett

Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. wrote
I officiate basketball (H.S. and youth age since 1971 to the present; MTD, Sr.

Mark (love that name), I've got you slightly beat on earliest officiating date since I worked that park district kids baseball program starting in the summer of 1962 (when I was 13). However, I only did it for three summers. I remember one manager named "Tubby". He was about 20 and one of his younger brothers played on his team. One game, I had to explain the infield fly rule to him after a call and the entire time he was eating licorice and kept slobbering with it dribbling down his shirt. It kind of set the tone for my future impressions of coaches.

JRutledge

I work football and baseball. I will not work a single baseball game this year (I am debating if I will come back at all). Funny I have worked more State Finals in those two sports than I have in basketball.

Peace

truerookie

Basketball Only for me.

Welpe

JRutledge wrote
I work football and baseball. I will not work a single baseball game this year (I am debating if I will come back at all). Funny I have worked more State Finals in those two sports than I have in basketball.

Peace

What drove your decision to take a year off from baseball? I'm just curious since I'm considering something similar but not with baseball.

rockyroad

Basketball is the only sport I officiate. I coach football and track (long jump and triple jump). Never had any desire to officiate any other sport except for wrestling, but that's at the same time as basketball, so that never happened.

BillyMac

Mark Padgett wrote
Walked around with a bullhorn and gave a commentary to the spectators.

I didn't know that there was And One Croquet.

BillyMac

Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. wrote
I really wish that I had taken up umpiring baseball about 20 years sooner because I really enjoy it almost as much as I do officiating basketball.

99 degrees in the shade? Wind blown dust in your face? Sitting out thunderstorms in the dugout? Games with no clock that go on for hours, and hours? Getting sunburned in extra inning games? Coaches spitting tobacco juice on your shoes? Fans, including the cop behind the backstop, threatening to, "Kill the umpire"? Oh yeah? Sure sounds like a picnic in the park to me?

BillyMac

fullor30 wrote
They had don't ask, don't tell back then?

The girls kept asking me where the submarines were, and I keep telling them that they were underwater. Some of them believed me. Those were the dates that ended well.

grunewar

Basketball only for me.

I average about 150 games a yr and can go almost all season....although some months are slim.

Basketball = wife happy, hubby out of house making money and doing something he likes.

More sports = wife probably NOT happy with hubby as he would be gone TOO much and not taking care of house, yard, cars, dogs, etc.

A good balance for me, and my wife, to date. Thankfully, my kids are grown.

Jeremy Hohn

Basketball Only. It is literally year round for me now. 😮

Welpe

Grune, I wouldn't have time for more than one sport if I worked that many games. I put in less games over two sports. I was just under 100 last year between football and basketball.

Terrapins Fan

I only do basketball, but in the past, I did soccer because my son played and they needed officials. I took a 1 day course and viola, instant ref.

That lasted about 2 seasons, thank goodness.

bainsey

JugglingReferee wrote
Lemonade, that cool refreshing drink.

Eddie Murphy doing Elvis, right? Ha ha, very funny, m......

Anyway, just finished seventh year of basketball, been doing soccer for four. (I'm advancing much quicker in soccer than in basketball.) I also work a summer co-ed, non-competitive slow-pitch softball league, which is undoubtedly the least serious work I do. I tried high/middle school softball for two years, but I didn't enjoy it much.

I still have my old fast-pitch gear, which I haven't sold yet.

cmhjordan23

I officiate soccer in addition to basketball. Everybody always asks me which sport I like better. I tell them whatever sport is in season. By the end of basketball, looking for a change of pace and soccer starts. I truly enjoy both sports.

shavano

I am in my 8th year of HS and college soccer, and rejoining the umpire ranks this spring after a 25 year hiatus.

I'm of the same mindset as cmhjordan, I enjoy whichever sport is in season.

My other career is pretty sedentary, so officiating year-round keeps me active. 😎

Adam

Just hoops for me, although the wife is asking if I'm going to pick up another sport. As familiar as I am with basketball rules, that's how clueless I am in other sports. That's probably why I hesitate.

La Rikardo

Soccer is my main sport. I took up basketball this winter to make the soccer offseason more bearable. I like officiating basketball a lot, but soccer will always be my love. I'm a fairly regular poster in the soccer referees forum mentioned in this post, though I didn't post on that particular thread.

La Rikardo

Snaqwells wrote
Just hoops for me, although the wife is asking if I'm going to pick up another sport. As familiar as I am with basketball rules, that's how clueless I am in other sports. That's probably why I hesitate.

Soccer laws are far easier to understand and apply than basketball rules. Give soccer a try.

Mark Padgett

La Rikardo wrote
Soccer laws are far easier to understand and apply than basketball rules. Give soccer a try.

Can't - I don't read metric.

chymechowder

Snaqwells wrote
Just hoops for me, although the wife is asking if I'm going to pick up another sport.

Sounds like she's trying to get you out of the house! 😮

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