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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't know about baseball, but I have noticed in basketball I and many of the coaches don't quite understand all of the nuances of the rules, probably most of the referees don't either. [b] I tried to teach my daughter the Euro step, a couple of coaches have called it a travel already.  I[/b] had to find videos explaining the gather step.

I also recall as a player having limited understanding of the rules on occasion when I was called on to handle the ball.  The thing is kids get put in positions, I played post, the nuances of reaching in and hand checking, dribbling the ball for five seconds etc. just aren't relevant. [b] I needed to understand over the back, lane violations and going clean blocks etc.[/b]

It would be nice if some of the AAU travel teams had some training on that.
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So do most youth refs [/quote]

I agree, I was going to follow up that youth refs don't do themselves much help.  Often times they are younger or inexperienced, other times they have a "let them play" attitude.

I ran into a particularly frustrating situation, where my daughter's coach noticed, the refs weren't calling reaching in (in this league they were supposed to be high school refs).  The coach's response was rather than teach the kids correct technique, was to encourage the kids to hack like you wouldn't believe.

That was the refs in the league fault for not setting the tone early at least sufficiently to clarify what the rules are.[/quote]

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