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Darrell Wilson started officiating way back when I coached basketball.  It was the last season of my career and the first season of his.

You gotta learn his officiating procedures; calls he loves and calls he'll never make.

If only refs were taught how to officiate games according to a rule book or something… OH WAIT THEY ARE! 
There is NFHS rules and then there are Darrell rules.

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GRC 56-52. Come down to the last possession and bell coaches got to worried about yelling at the refs in the last minute than coaching, bad call or not coach the dang game. Bell gets the wonder boy crew of Darrel, who you know if you play in the 13th, and a Corbin football coach as a ref… and once again gets the rough whistle on their own floor. Regardless you have to win that game in the late stretches and can’t rely on getting bailed out. They will improve playing teams like this, but it’s undeniable Bell is a different team especially on defense with burnett on the floor. Didn’t have to score much and made an impact everywhere else. When he’s 100 percent Bell is right there with Harlan County, Corbin and North hoping South has a bad night in march.

In the 13th region it seems to always come down to everyone wanting to blame the refs. Darrell catches a lot of grief from every direction but he’s apparently at the top of a bunch of coaches lists or he wouldn’t have all their important games. The officials in the 13th probably have it worse than anywhere in the state if you watch the way several coaches cry and berate them for every call they make. Yelling at and blaming refs doesn’t seem to be as big a thing in other regions.

Darrel is not at the top of any list in Bell County, and neither is the crew that is formerly employed or currently employed at middlesboro high school for football, but they get more Bell county games than anyone. Why, when there is 10 plus games on a friday night in football or basketball, there is not enough 13th officials to cover all of them and they do not want to be apart of any statewide official organization or union which is an entire different argument. That means they have to get anyone they can from anywhere they can, and if they have to poach an official from the 12th or somewhere else, they don’t want to make them drive to Pineville when they could just go to london or whitley. Means you get middlesboro, harlan, and knox guys at 95 percent of games at bell high especially on a friday or saturday where there’s too many games to cover.

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Still not an excuse you gotta win the game when you have the ball up 4 with 2 minutes to go.