I've never bought the "good people" excuse. When people repeatedly act bad they are not good people. I can get it as a one off but most of the time it is not.
Why does this moron still have a job
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I've never bought the "good people" excuse. When people repeatedly act bad they are not good people. I can get it as a one off but most of the time it is not.
Our most notorious fan is a minister. Even lost his **** at quiz bowl, but he seems to think no one can hear him at soccer games. People with small kids will sit on the other side but you can still hear him.
Please tell the quiz bowl story. I mean kids buzz in and either know the answer or not.
Most events you just need to give a last name like Federer or something, so our very good teacher always advises kids to just give a last name. They will ask for more specific like “Roosevelt” to make sure you know which one.
His kid answered and gave both names on someone but got the first name wrong, and daddy minister starts yelling you only need the last name, which is true unless you answer more than you need to and get it wrong.
Dropping f-bombs at moderator. Also even the teacher coach isn’t supposed to challenge something, just the kids.
Plus it was the National NAQT championships.
It's not just high school. I was at a 5th grade boys tournament this past weekend. There was one game in between my son's games so we just sat and waited rather than killing time elsewhere. There was a lady sitting two rows in front of us that bitched the ENTIRE game about officiating. She wasn't vulgar, but she literally complained about something the entire game...both sides of the floor. "That's travelling!" "Get his hands off him!" "You gotta call something there!" Our coach and I were just sitting behind her rolling her eyes. Their team was down by 20 points...I don't think the refs were the problem. These are 5th grade kids with high schoolers reffing the games. Seriously, WGAF?! It's just a bad look. I don't claim to be perfect, but good lord, just sit there and shut up.
We videotaped one of our kids’ three year old soccer games and all you could hear was husband’s co-worker screaming at some teenage girl ref. Husband was joking with him at work about the tape. He asked to listen to it, was appalled at himself, and worked really hard to change.
Many times coaching or reffing youth sports will help you. I caught myself at a youth wrestling match and vowed to not be that guy. A couple years later I helped coach football. Was in the middle of the defense and read everything like it was super slow mo but since it was new to these kids it seemed fast. What also helped was I couldn’t coach once the ball snapped. Makes you find points to help and not get worked up.
That's probably for the best of everyone involved.
CycloneErik
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On the official issue, there are a lot of really bad fans and parents at athletic events. But let's not totally give all officials a free pass either. I have been at my share of events where adult officials were really bad including one where one kicked a coach out because he simply quietly asked what the call was, started calling phantom penalty shots - God knows why - and then came over to the sidelines in the middle of the game and taunted the fans offering them his whistle if they thought they could do better when a few fans grumbled about what was going on. Unfortunately he got what he wanted then because one of the parents went off on him when he did that and he kicked her out. He then proceeded to kick other parents out when they asked him to please just start the game. He also continued to make very inappropriate comments to kicked out parents as they left the game area. Some may say that he was just having a bad day, but this behavior went way, way, way beyond any semblance of what is appropriate. Some people shouldn't be officials.
CycloneErik
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But just think, this stallion graduated from Simpson in 2012 with a plan to break into coaching. Did his early gigs, and this gofer spot was the one intended to lead into D1 college coaching. He blew 6 years of work, at least for now, to fight with a high school kid over Twitter.
AAU future.
Or may get a job with Big Balls as a shoes salesman, Lithuanian division.
