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Post by fischer on Jan 24, 2008 21:14:24 GMT -5
out of a Jr. High basketball game tonight.
It was ridiculous. I hadn't said a single word to the refs all night (they are absolutely terrible). Both sides' parents are really letting him have it. Well, our kid goes up and comes down with a rebound. One of their players takes two steps and pushes our kid in the back so hard that he falls down. The ref subsequently calls travelling on our kid.
I am irate. This is a close game at this point (32-28 midway through the third). I yell out, and I quote: "ARE YOU JOKING?!?!" He turns around and T's me up. I then make my fatal mistake. Instead of just shutting up, I yell, and I quote; "WHAT?!?" He turns back around and T's me up again. I walked out to a standing ovation from both sides. The school's principal kept apologizing to me for how bad the ref was, like it was her fault.
On a side note, it really fired my guys up. We won 57-34.
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Post by cowtownmike on Jan 25, 2008 7:15:50 GMT -5
Greatness.
Simply greatness. Reminds me of the great Nolan Richardson against the sips back in 1990.
Disgusted with the officiating, Arkansas coach Nolan Richardson left the bench and went to the locker room while the Longhorns-Razorbacks game was still in progress. Then Lee Mayberry hit a 28-foot three-pointer to send the game into overtime, prompting Richardson to return to the floor. ...Austin American-Statesman
You know, the great Bob Knight started out as a football coach. Think about it, Coach...
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Post by fischer on Jan 25, 2008 8:52:03 GMT -5
basketball sucks.
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Post by sully on Jan 25, 2008 10:10:44 GMT -5
A good bball coach gets tossed at least 2-3 times a season depending on the number of games. One down. Two to go.
Keep up the good work. All refs suck. Thats why they are refs and not coaches. Remember that.
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Post by fischer on Jan 25, 2008 11:12:14 GMT -5
no, if a coach gets thrown out more than once, he is reprimanded. As it is, I have to go to an hour long seminar while at coaching school this July.
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Post by cowtownmike on Jan 25, 2008 12:05:09 GMT -5
A good bball coach gets tossed at least 2-3 times a season depending on the number of games. One down. Two to go. Keep up the good work. All refs suck. Thats why they are refs and not coaches. Remember that. This is exactly right. Getting a technical shows your team you're behind them. Notice how your kids improved after you got run?...wait a minute...that might not be a good thing? |
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Post by rp on Jan 25, 2008 12:39:30 GMT -5
That's awesome Fisch. Ha!
My ex-girlfriend's Dad told me that one time he was playing basketball in high school and his team was playing like shit. It got really bad and the coach had enough so, without saying a word, he walks out of the gym, buys some popcorn, walks back in the gym, sits in the bleachers and eats the popcorn watching his team in bewilderment. Genius.
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Post by fischer on Jan 25, 2008 12:56:53 GMT -5
I have thought about doing that before rp.
Getting tossed really fired my guys up. They had been biting their tongues all night.
But, its not a good thing to have happen more than once.
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Post by sully on Jan 25, 2008 14:31:45 GMT -5
Are these kids the typical brenham 'athlete'. If so, it's hard to believe they were biting their tongues all night. I'm sure they were chirping as usual...
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Post by fischer on Jan 25, 2008 14:58:02 GMT -5
you haven't got a clue what the typical brenham 'athlete' is like. We have very disciplined teams. We aren't an inner city school. We have country kids who work their asses off and who are respectful.
If by typical you mean black, then yeah, we have few black kids on our team. But they are great kids and weren't saying one thing.
Just because a kid is black doesn't mean he is going to run his mouth.
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Post by P. Marf on Jan 26, 2008 14:53:34 GMT -5
Yea Sully! Dont be so stereotypical! Damn.
Was this your first standing ovation ever? If so congrats, thats a major feat.
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Post by fischer on Jan 26, 2008 16:39:48 GMT -5
it was my first.
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Post by Ticket Mouse on Jan 26, 2008 18:11:27 GMT -5
I umpired little league and high school for 5 years and I threw an ejected about an average of 2-3 a year. Never was it for little shit. Coaches will always be on your case about one thing or another and you have to take most of it with a grain of salt. If you're going to have a quick trigger, go into sharpshooting or something, doing be a game official. Some times you miss a call and the worst thing you can do it make up for it. Shit happens. Let it go. Don't try to make it even. You have to have a thick skin. I always ran my mouth and I still sometimes do in softball when we have prick umpires that think this is the MLB. Most of the time, if you call a fair game and don't acknowledge little chirps from the bench, people will leave you alone.
Here's a rundown of my most famous ejections:
1. Made a call on a technicality (coach's son BTW). Had to be done. Coach comes out of the dugout screaming at me. I let it go for a bit b/c he obviously didn't know the rule. He finally pipes down and walks back. Then I hear him rumaging around in the dugout. He comes flying back out with a rulebook in his hand. Before he got one word out, I gave him the heave-ho. Don't bring a damn rulebook on to the field. You're an ass if you bring a rule book on to a little league field. On his way out the gate I yelled at him the section and article in the rule book.
2. Same asshole coach two years later. Ball is popped up right in front of home plate. The ball is going to be foul but the kid (son again) touches the ball while both feet are in fair territory. Fair ball. Kids stand around and two runs score. Coach comes yelling out of the dugout. Face as red as a tomato. Yelling stuff that doesn't even make sense, making a total ass of himself. Calls me stupid or something so I throw him out. Keeps yelling at me. I walk off. Keeps going after me. My dad was calling the game with me and is holding asshole back. I get pissed, throw my mask off and start walking to right field to cool off and get away from the situation. Asshole then says "Don't walk away from me. I'll rip your face off." I called the game right there and would not leave until the cops came to escort me out of the park. That asshole later went on to coach at Trinity Christian in Cedar Hill. Don't know what he's doing now but if I ever see him again, I'll rip his face off. His penalty for his actions-absolutely nothing. Haven't umpired a game since then. This was about 7 years ago. Felt totally betrayed by the league my family had put a combined 50+ years into.
3. Another asshole came and politely told me I owed him a call and that I should make it up before the later innings so it won't look so obvious. I just hate stupidity.
4. Got shoved once. It wasn't even a very heated exchange. That was in a high school summer league. I think the dad was banned for the rest of the season.
Fisch, you deserved the first T. The second one was a product of the ref wanting to show you up and inflate his ego. Basketball refs are the worst. Scum I tell ya.
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Post by Ticket Mouse on Jan 26, 2008 18:11:42 GMT -5
Damn that's long. don't read it.
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Post by fischer on Jan 26, 2008 18:25:49 GMT -5
I read like 10 lines of it...including the last one.
How do you know I deserved it? I have said far more before and never been T'ed up. Not saying it was completely uncalled for, but it still would have been prett ticky tack.
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