competitive little kid sports

[KST8FAN]

Reffed over 50 basketball games for KSHSAA this year. 2 final games tomorrow. It's been nice to have extra cash but I am probably done with basketball after this year. Done getting yelled at by people.

Anyone care to guess which former KSU Cat and which former Squawk was in attendance for a JV boys game I worked on Tuesday?

As a former youth sports coach, thank you , CF3.


Tom

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[Cire]

Reffing is in as bad a shape as I've seen it being around youth/middle/high school sports.

IDK what it will look like 10 years from now.

[steve dave]

we have had really great refs this basketball season. only one instance where I had to get physical with one to assert dominance. jk, but not about the great refs part. that part was true.

[steve dave]

have you guys ever noticed that when you're winning the refs are great but, interestingly, when you are losing they just suck huge ass? kinda makes me think we'd never lose a game if it wasn't for refs.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

Reffed over 50 basketball games for KSHSAA this year. 2 final games tomorrow. It's been nice to have extra cash but I am probably done with basketball after this year. Done getting yelled at by people.

Anyone care to guess which former KSU Cat and which former Squawk was in attendance for a JV boys game I worked on Tuesday?

thank you for your service.

The other night, I was happy to see one of the principals at our school shut down a spectator who was getting carried away complaining about calls during a game.

[Stupid Fitz]

I always make a point to go over and give the refs a fist bump and say thank you after every game. I go through the kid and coach line and then go right over to them. One game they were complete crap and I yelled at them a couple of times for being shitty and when they saw me coming i'm sure they were thinking I was going to yell at them again, but I gave them fist bumps and said thanks for taking the time. I think it's important for the kids to see me do that. The kids know when they are really bad so it's good for them to see me thanking them anyway. We actually had some pretty good ones this year too. It was all old dudes for the most part. Also, basketball is a stupid sport and i'm really glad its over.

[ben ji]

When I was at that youth wrestling tournament last weekend one of the refs made a pretty egregiously bad call. It was at the end of the period and the ref called a pin about 2 seconds after the time had run out...but it wasn't his fault. The time keeper 14 year old who was supposed to tap him on the back to let him know the time was over was busy looking at her phone and never got out of their seat to let him know.

It was one of my buddy's club kids wrestling while he was the coach and he was pretty pissed since they were winning the match before that, made an argument for about 10 seconds but there is not much you can do at that point.

30 seconds later the next match starts on the same mat and all is forgotten, just complete mayhem. 

[KST8FAN]

When I was at that youth wrestling tournament last weekend one of the refs made a pretty egregiously bad call. It was at the end of the period and the ref called a pin about 2 seconds after the time had run out...but it wasn't his fault. The time keeper 14 year old who was supposed to tap him on the back to let him know the time was over was busy looking at her phone and never got out of their seat to let him know.

It was one of my buddy's club kids wrestling while he was the coach and he was pretty pissed since they were winning the match before that, made an argument for about 10 seconds but there is not much you can do at that point.

30 seconds later the next match starts on the same mat and all is forgotten, just complete mayhem.

Amateurs... back in my day, the time keeper had a rolled up towel baton wrapped with athletic tape.

 At the end of the period, if the referee  was on the mat, you slung that projectile, hitting them, which alerted them the period was over.


Tom

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[ben ji]

When I was at that youth wrestling tournament last weekend one of the refs made a pretty egregiously bad call. It was at the end of the period and the ref called a pin about 2 seconds after the time had run out...but it wasn't his fault. The time keeper 14 year old who was supposed to tap him on the back to let him know the time was over was busy looking at her phone and never got out of their seat to let him know.

It was one of my buddy's club kids wrestling while he was the coach and he was pretty pissed since they were winning the match before that, made an argument for about 10 seconds but there is not much you can do at that point.

30 seconds later the next match starts on the same mat and all is forgotten, just complete mayhem.

Amateurs... back in my day, the time keeper had a rolled up towel baton wrapped with athletic tape.

 At the end of the period, if the referee  was on the mat, you slung that projectile, hitting them, which alerted them the period was over.


Tom

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They definitely still use the rolled up towel baton but the person that was supposed to smack the ref with it was oblivious and didn't realize the clock was winding down while they were still sitting. All and all not a big deal since it was a couple of 7 year olds wrestling.

[Cartierfor3]

Reffing is in as bad a shape as I've seen it being around youth/middle/high school sports.

IDK what it will look like 10 years from now.

There are a lot less guys getting into than there was in previous generations that's for sure. There is a big shortage nationwide in every sport.

I think the way we've watched sports has changed. Everything is slow-mo replayed, tons of calls are reviewed. This was only my 2nd year doing basketball and I was told "You're the best JV ref crew we've had all year" and shouted at that I was blind on consecutive nights. It is what it is. I'm finishing up a career change, so I don't know if I'll do basketball again. I did it this year because it's pretty good money but I'm not sure going forward.

But as long as I am physically able I will continue to umpire baseball. That I enjoy (because it's a superior sport in every imaginable way just ask steve dave or any other non-idiot).

First umpire date of the year is 3/24

[steve dave]

CF3 you are a saint and I love you irl for what you do

[steve dave]

We had practice today, tomorrow, monday, and tuesday. it's FULL SEND and I coach it.

we play our first game the last thursday of march and first tournament the first weekend of April. and have a thursday game the day before our first pool play game. Have 9 tourneys on the schedule but may add one or two. will play 60+ games. the grind is on. I love it but it's also brutal. My kid will be behind the dish for 35+.

[Stupid Fitz]

We had practice today, tomorrow, monday, and tuesday. it's FULL SEND and I coach it.

we play our first game the last thursday of march and first tournament the first weekend of April. and have a thursday game the day before our first pool play game. Have 9 tourneys on the schedule but may add one or two. will play 60+ games. the grind is on. I love it but it's also brutal. My kid will be behind the dish for 35+.

Mrs SF and I just went over the calendar last week after I added the baseball season. It's surreal when you read the entire seasons baseball schedule out loud to someone else. I love it too, but is is a freaking grind. some of those tourney days are just brutal depending on game times. SD, we are coming back to Omaha for slump buster again this year.