[KYGal]

And it matters that some officials get excited in some games and get into it a little bit, what are they supposed to do, walk up and down the floor like robots and have no emotion at all, if they didn't enjoy it, then why do it, it sure isn't for the money. They could go and make a whole lot more money doing gradeschool and not have to be out all night long.

So I guess being a good ref to you doesn't have anything to do being in the right position to call, their judgement, being in shape to get up and down the floor, communicating with the scorers table and fellow officials about what is going on, keeping control in games, getting subs in and out, communicating with coaches, talking to players keeping them out of trouble, all that referee stuff you have no idea about, not to mention all the time on the road driving to and from games, for what, about 60 bucks, that don't even cover the gas and wear and tear on your vehicle, not to mention other things, but That sounds about right from all of you know it all fans in the stands. You have no idea what officials do to allow these kids to play this great game, and When you can go and get a shirt and a whistle and do better or even try to be better, then you can start talking about us officials. :igiveup:

I have not posted on this thread until now, but I have been reading the comments. I understand your frustration as a ref and I agree that you have a hard job! But there are 5-6 refs in the 14th region that causes a bad taste in the players, spectators and school officials. For example, when I was coaching, my team was playing in another region. One of the ref's began making sarcastic comments to the players, right in front of the fans. I noticed that the fans became irrate and the players were extremely torn up, so I called a time out and questioned them about what was going on. This ref had asked one of the players if they had won any games and they replied yea several. He then said to her, who did you beat, nursing home teams? I was livid and I waited until the game was over, which we won and waited to speak to this ref. I asked politely to talk to him about the comment and told him it was innapropriate. He told me to Go to ____ and told me to shove off. I told him I was calling the assigning secretary and asked his name. He said I don't have to tell you anything. I asked him one more as he walked off. The next morning a ref called me he said that he was one of the ref's at the game and that the other ref was unappropriate to the players and to me. He told me the assigning secretary's name and number and asked me to call him. He said he didn't want anything to do with this, because it was wrong and that he had already called him and he was expecting a call from me. My point is, if there are two or three ref's on the floor and one of them is doing inappropriate things, they should step up and report this ref. It does no good for the school authorities or community to report a terrible ref, nothing happens......all I ask of the assigning secretary was that he looked into these allegations and never assign him as a ref to our school. Referees come in early and sat and talk our talk to others they know. Any ref that makes a comment that he already knows who is going to win, before the game should be fired on the spot, which happened recently and was reported. The rest of the story on the other region ref, later that year in the 14th region, he was assigned to our boys team during the district tournament and you can guess how that went. He should have never been on the floor again for making comments to 14-15 year old children.

Another issue that shouldn't happen, a referee that has any affiliation with a school or county should never call in a game. It is too hard emotionally for them to call a game like this. Their human and their either going to overcall to show they are not bias toward their school or they are going to give their school little breaks. Either way, they should never be put in that position. If I were a ref, I would never want to call for a school/team where I had graduated from, worked, etc. It is not right to put them in that position, but this happens too often.

Again, I am not downing referees, you guys do have a rough job, and 99% of the time, you make one side of the crowd angry. That would not be a job I would want. But something needs to be done about the 4-5 that wear the black and white striped shirts and call themselves referees.