jessexy said:
Well, I didn't say that the rules aren't stupid. I was just saying the rules tell everyone why you can't have 12 balls all over the field. HS rules allow for 3 balls and ball chasers. That's it.
bigjag19 said:jessexy said:
Well, I didn't say that the rules aren't stupid. I was just saying the rules tell everyone why you can't have 12 balls all over the field. HS rules allow for 3 balls and ball chasers. That's it.
Did that change? Forever the rule was at least 3…
Have done many a game with 5 to even 9.
Mathguy64 said:bigjag19 said:jessexy said:
Well, I didn't say that the rules aren't stupid. I was just saying the rules tell everyone why you can't have 12 balls all over the field. HS rules allow for 3 balls and ball chasers. That's it.
Did that change? Forever the rule was at least 3…
Have done many a game with 5 to even 9.
At least 3, all with the fancy NFHS logo. The next time I look for that will be the first.
And at least two ball shaggers.
Mathguy64 said:
In an 8-0 game I promise no coach, player or referee cared. Hopefully they were running the clock after the 5th or 6th goal.
jeffk said:
If you were running clock, wasn't your team the home team?
Rudyjax said:jeffk said:
If you were running clock, wasn't your team the home team?
Yes. But it's not my place to tell my daughters coach to get youth ball girls or make JV do it.
Parents could cheat.jeffk said:Rudyjax said:jeffk said:
If you were running clock, wasn't your team the home team?
Yes. But it's not my place to tell my daughters coach to get youth ball girls or make JV do it.
Hehehe. I wish you would have been around back in the day to tell the parents of my players this maxim.
Also, our district dropped the hammer on letting parents run the scoreboard at matches. Made it so it had to be a district employee. Supposedly that made it less likely for the home team to get favorable treatment with timekeeping. (It didn't.)
I kinda didn't stop the clock right after a goal and started it when the kicker lined up. I don't think anyone cared.Mathguy64 said:Parents could cheat.jeffk said:Rudyjax said:jeffk said:
If you were running clock, wasn't your team the home team?
Yes. But it's not my place to tell my daughters coach to get youth ball girls or make JV do it.
Hehehe. I wish you would have been around back in the day to tell the parents of my players this maxim.
Also, our district dropped the hammer on letting parents run the scoreboard at matches. Made it so it had to be a district employee. Supposedly that made it less likely for the home team to get favorable treatment with timekeeping. (It didn't.)
District "timekeepers" are usually so bad at the job they couldnt cheat if they tried.
I think most refs do a good job or at least try their best. But lately, I think some refs have bought into the whole "poor referees" narrative and any discussion leads to a serious overreaction on their part. I rarely get upset with refs unless I think something is dangerous but I will occasionally question calls but I never raise my voice(I asked my wife and coaches to verify this). It's amazing how quickly their moods change and some become downright confrontational.Jim01 said:
We've had a particularly bad ref twice in the last couple weeks
The first time we had him there was a through ball from the other team, our keeper comes out to get it as their striker is charging. It's a bang bang play but our keeper clearly deflects the ball, they collide into a heap, the ball rolls into the box and we clear it. WHISTLE and he calls a PK. Just a horrible call. Our keep ends up with a sprained MCL and bruised bone and carted off the field.
Then last night the same ref makes a pretty bad no call against one of our girls getting taken down early in the game. A couple of our girls complain. Granted they should have maybe kept their mouth shut, but it was nothing beyond passionate play, nothing disrespectful. Man he took it personally. The rest of the game those two players could have got mugged at midfield and he wouldn't have called anything. I understand it's hard to take feelings out of things, but these are high school girls buddy, get over yourself and just call the game evenly. It was really kind of comical how much he turned a blind eye to some calls when those two were the ones involved.
King Koda said:
Stay tuned.
SCHTICK00 said:King Koda said:
Stay tuned.
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I knew a clock operator who was a magician. He could change an 8 into a 3 and a 9 into a 2 like it was nothing. We once played a 40-minute half in only 18 minutes on the watch. And nobody complained because it was 12-0 and the losing team had 12 players on the team. It was after report cards came out and the whole team had flunked. 3 varsity players were left with 2 JV and 7 of them were from the wrestling team since the coach did double-duty.jeffk said:
The amount of times I had to remind officials and opposing coaches of Hanlon's Razor when they'd complain about "unfair" clock operation was quite high.
The rules tell the teams to have 3 balls with ball chasers. HS referee chapters tell their referees that balls are necessary for the game to be played and chasers are not. If coaches complain about wasted time cuz of players chasing balls then they should get ball chasers, not get more balls around the field. It is what it is. Refs don't make the rules.Rudyjax said:Mathguy64 said:bigjag19 said:jessexy said:
Well, I didn't say that the rules aren't stupid. I was just saying the rules tell everyone why you can't have 12 balls all over the field. HS rules allow for 3 balls and ball chasers. That's it.
Did that change? Forever the rule was at least 3…
Have done many a game with 5 to even 9.
At least 3, all with the fancy NFHS logo. The next time I look for that will be the first.
And at least two ball shaggers.
Operating the scoreboard in a 6A varsity last night that as 8nil, we counted at least 3 times where 2 minutes burned off having the CB run to the back of the stadium to get the ball for a corner.
They ain't got no chasers.
Ha, you must not have seen RSL v LAFC last Saturday....dallasag00 said:
Related…this US/Canada game going on right now is a joke. Never seen field conditions this bad.
Who is blaming the refs on that post?jessexy said:The rules tell the teams to have 3 balls with ball chasers. HS referee chapters tell their referees that balls are necessary for the game to be played and chasers are not. If coaches complain about wasted time cuz of players chasing balls then they should get ball chasers, not get more balls around the field. It is what it is. Refs don't make the rules.Rudyjax said:Mathguy64 said:bigjag19 said:jessexy said:
Well, I didn't say that the rules aren't stupid. I was just saying the rules tell everyone why you can't have 12 balls all over the field. HS rules allow for 3 balls and ball chasers. That's it.
Did that change? Forever the rule was at least 3…
Have done many a game with 5 to even 9.
At least 3, all with the fancy NFHS logo. The next time I look for that will be the first.
And at least two ball shaggers.
Operating the scoreboard in a 6A varsity last night that as 8nil, we counted at least 3 times where 2 minutes burned off having the CB run to the back of the stadium to get the ball for a corner.
They ain't got no chasers.
The waters was actually worse. The ball would roll on the snow. Last night they were basically playing beach soccer.jessexy said:Ha, you must not have seen RSL v LAFC last Saturday....dallasag00 said:
Related…this US/Canada game going on right now is a joke. Never seen field conditions this bad.
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