["LET EM PLAY"]

There is an officials association and coaches within that specific area have a voice with the assigning secretary. If a coach feels a game was unfairly called they can send game film to that scretary or the KHSAA. But to be honest most officials do a good job and I would bet most every official trys to call the best game they can. We as fans are usually biased as to who we want to win a game and judge officials based on that and if we think they are wrong well then by gosh they are wrong. The officials read the rule books, take at least 1 test per season and have meetings within their association to disvuss rules and how to apply them and even what points of interest for that season are. I think often us fans get caught up in the game and even sometimes don't actually know the actual rules only what we think the rule is and when the fouls in a game don't even up or our team was beat, well the refs cost us the game. When actually if we look at a teams style of play for reason of fouls discrepancy or your team just did not play as good or even the other team just wanted it more and played harder is reasons your team lost. I will agree officials miss calls and make mistakes but I do not think the majority of officials make calls to influence a winnier of a game.

I will admit I was at one time pretty tough on officials but then once I started going to games as a fan of basketball and not a particular team then things looked a lot different and you hear fans say all sorts of thing about officials to put the blame on someone for the loss or bad game.

Like everything else , a few bad ones make the rest look bad.