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Originally posted by Rich Fronheiser
Where I live we choose what games we work as we don't have assigning associations. And I will not work the Saturday youth football ever again. I work a lot of Mondays and Thursdays and every Friday night. That's enough for me.

Now, I only got that attitude because one of the youth programs "fired" me this season because I flagged two of their coaches for USC. One came out to the hash mark to argue with a back judge and the other was profane. They can decide who they hire, but it will never be me again. And since all the programs here seem to be related in some way, I won't work any of them. I'll sleep in instead.

I don't owe these youth programs anything and they don't owe me anything. But they shouldn't complain when they have to hire high school students and parents to "work" their games.

Amen to Rich. Saying no to a youth league is not "failing the kids." The parents have failed the kids if they model lousy sportsmanship and care so much about winning that they abuse officials and allow the coaches to do the same. There are some good leagues out there, according to some posts, but the others can fend for themselves when they want officials. As for me, I never do non-school events anymore.