[phs1986]

Blah blah blah blah. Another one of these threads.

Maybe you should read the newspapers more or if you're so concerned about it, maybe check websites, other media outlets, etc., as there is constant "recruitment of new staff." It's just the fact that a very small percentage actually have the guts to do this job to help the kids, where most would rather sit in the stands and behind computers and talk dumb **** because their team lost a close one, or they are just "one of those" that ***** and gripe about anything and everything in life in general, yet lack the drive to actually do anything about it.

As far as the "good" and "bad" officials, the only people that have ANY right to judge an official, are their peers. And they respect each other enough to not do that to each other. It's a shame that the general public, other adults especially, don't have it in them to respect what each and every official does for his/her child on every given night.

And please, before some fool starts the "they get paid for it" deal, I challenge you to ask ANY official you may know, why they do it. Believe me, you will overwhelmingly be denounced as aforementioned "fool" for thinking it's for the money.

But since folks can so easily say how bad things are and never any good things, at least support your theories by giving some reasons for your opinion, instead of just "they were terrible" or "the officials sucked last night," or "they cheated."
Case point: So many people cried around on here over the traveling/non-foul call at the end of last week's Valley-Perry Central game. Where ANY unbiased person with even BASIC knowledge of the rules knows the contact was initiated by the offensive player, thus resulting in the correct call being made. It is good to see an official stick to his guns and make the correct call in a situation such as this, not letting the team name, the player involved, or the heat of the moment steer him into making a wrong call. Granted, it does happen where a rule may be mistakenly misinterpreted or applied in some rare situations, but 99% of the time, it's just that your judgement is different from the official's judgement. And his/hers are the only that matters, as they are the individuals with the stones to do the job.

Ok, gots to go. Gonna watch me a ballgame and root for my favorite team......the 3 players in stripes. Actually, the game I am preparing to watch is last night's SF-Prestonsburg game that so many described the officiating with words such as "horrible", "cheat", and "ashamed." Sounds like I have an entertaining couple of hours coming up.

Next time, I may give you my true feelings on the subject. :biggrin:

Now now sugar... your feathers are all up in a dander.... Notice the two highlighted parts of your post.... I will touch on those in a sec after I say this.... I DO think there are a "few" good ref's out there floatin around... (baseball, football, basketball) and (here is the part about the first highlighted section)... If all the ref's out there really and honestly cared about the kids, they would call the game as it should be called and want to show the kids (from pee wee to high school/college) what they are doing wrong... if it's a walk... call it! If it's a double dribble, call it..... If it's a foul (be it personal or whatever) call it on the right player and NOT who they think it's on.... Granted... not all the ref's pull this kind of stuff and are basically great people both on and off the court...... What I'm tryin to say is be fair to each and every child and do what is best for them and not yourself....

Second section I highlighted, maybe if each of the peers would critique each other a little and get opinions from each other and talk about calls and plays they have seen they could learn a lot. Helping each other and learning from "mistakes" that have been made is something that could be beneficial to the ref's in the region..... Mistakes ARE made as not one of us on this big ole' earth is perfect... we ALL make mistakes....

Yes, there are several out here (parents, adults, etc), that try to make it their life's job to harass the ref's.... It seems as if they come to ballgames for that one purpose..... BUT, it takes a set of kahauna's to get out there and call ballgames knowing what type of treatment your going to get.... Kudo's to many out there who do that.... I wish there was a quick fix for the situtation at hand.... I hope your not upset at me for sayin this stuff but I thought you might would need a "outside" view from an impartial person!!