Youth referee abuse

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of parents seem to think that abusing refs is part of youth basketball. It's ridiculous. I was at a tournament last weekend where many of the refs were auditioning to be approved to ref ncaa games. The parents at our kids' 3rd game were mad because we had regular old high school refs (older guys, not is as good shape and not trying as hard) rather than the guys who were auditioning. The funny thing is that those old guys still got almost every single call right, and sure as hell did a better job than any yelling parent would have done.

If I never hear another parent yell "travel" when a kid does a eurostep layup or "3 seconds" when an offensive player is legally in the paint for longer than 3 seconds it will be too soon.

You all forget the NYT article mentioned that in fact it can be poor officiating that drives the complaints, a situation exacerbated with churn in game officials.

I coach Fifth Grade travel basketball, and tell my kids to play full-blown pressure defense (usually a 2-2-1). I don't have them worry about fouls, because I know there's no way an official will dare to foul out my team .

My game plan is BASED on the refs being terrible, but in predictable ways. I'm betting that as the refs hesitate to call a foul on every possession, that I can speed the game up and turn it into a layup line.

The WORST thing that can happen is if a ref lets the other team's big kid camp in the lane, or blows out-of-bounds calls, or starts helping the other team when we're blowing them out. If they do that stuff, they're gonna hear about it. And if they can't handle the heat, get out of the kitchen. My kids and I lay it on the line each and every game. We're not gonna put up with some nobody ref gettin in our way.

You should not be coaching kids sports.

[Anonymous]

Of course, I disagree that any parent should abuse a referee. But I did call my son's soccer league and expressed my opinion that 14 year olds should not be refereeing games for 9 year olds. There were several incidents where kids (both on our team and the opposing team) were inappropriately rough with each other, really outside the bounds of appropriate, and the referee stood there and did nothing because they were too young and afraid to step in. A referee needs to be old enough and experienced enough to stop excessively rough play and keep the kids' behavior appropriate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of parents seem to think that abusing refs is part of youth basketball. It's ridiculous. I was at a tournament last weekend where many of the refs were auditioning to be approved to ref ncaa games. The parents at our kids' 3rd game were mad because we had regular old high school refs (older guys, not is as good shape and not trying as hard) rather than the guys who were auditioning. The funny thing is that those old guys still got almost every single call right, and sure as hell did a better job than any yelling parent would have done.

If I never hear another parent yell "travel" when a kid does a eurostep layup or "3 seconds" when an offensive player is legally in the paint for longer than 3 seconds it will be too soon.

You all forget the NYT article mentioned that in fact it can be poor officiating that drives the complaints, a situation exacerbated with churn in game officials.

I coach Fifth Grade travel basketball, and tell my kids to play full-blown pressure defense (usually a 2-2-1). I don't have them worry about fouls, because I know there's no way an official will dare to foul out my team .

My game plan is BASED on the refs being terrible, but in predictable ways. I'm betting that as the refs hesitate to call a foul on every possession, that I can speed the game up and turn it into a layup line.

The WORST thing that can happen is if a ref lets the other team's big kid camp in the lane, or blows out-of-bounds calls, or starts helping the other team when we're blowing them out. If they do that stuff, they're gonna hear about it. And if they can't handle the heat, get out of the kitchen. My kids and I lay it on the line each and every game. We're not gonna put up with some nobody ref gettin in our way.

Learn some deep-breathing exercises, Bobby Knight.