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The AAU program and its director should be banned from participating in any AAU sponsored tournament ever again. I think high school associations should also pass a rule that a player participating in a fight in a sanctioned AAU game is deemed to have participated in a fight in a high school game for the purposes of suspensions and punishment. .
All that said, I have seen AAU refs pick verbal fights with 11 year old girls. A lot of those guys have issues.
Things really look to have simmered down after a minor altercation then that one ogre-ass ref went after the that’s when it really came apart. I wonder if there will be child abuse charges.
It was all split up then at :47 the bigger balder ref goes after a kid in the black hoodie and gray sweatpants.What are you talking about? The kids were going after the skinny ref with the receding hairline the whole time. It never simmered down.
It was all split up then at :47 the bigger balder ref goes after a kid in the black hoodie and gray sweatpants.
Ref was stupid for hopping around like a thug after he first got up off the ground. He incited further conflict rather than walking away. May be best not to have young, testosterone driven men reffing these kids.
The good news is that it was a half dozen or so black kids attacking a white man, so there is no concern that race was a factor.
The fact that anyone is defending the kids' behavior is indicative of a bigger problem in society. If you are a coach dealing with an overly provocative official, you have two options. 1) suck it up and deal with it. 2) Pull your team off the court and walk away. Fighting the refs is not an appropriate choice.
Yes. Refs can have issues. I've had guys who couldn't run down the court, to solid d2 refs on the floor. It's crazy.
Bunch of friggin animals, the kids and the adults. Only smart guy (maybe a parent or coach) there was the one who walks toward the commotion at the beginning then realizes he's in the lions den, and then walks away fast.The hell is wrong with these kids?
Ref was stupid for hopping around like a thug after he first got up off the ground. He incited further conflict rather than walking away. May be best not to have young, testosterone driven men reffing these kids. The good news is that it was a half dozen or so black kids attacking a white man, so there is no concern that race was a factor.
Read what I wrote again. Nothing I wrote "defends" the kids.The fact that anyone is defending the kids' behavior is indicative of a bigger problem in society.
Anyone know if there were any big-name college prospects on this team?
The good news is that it was a half dozen or so black kids attacking a white man, so there is no concern that race was a factor.
Delete your accountThe good news is that it was a half dozen or so black kids attacking a white man, so there is no concern that race was a factor.
Option 3: have a parent/player/assistant or anyone get the site director. You are disqualified and/or will not have a job with us again can go a long ways towards shutting someone up.
As someone who spent ten years reffing high school football if a player had attacked me... there is no way I would have taken a beating with no self defense.
Not that you can take them as gospel but every account I’ve read from the event had that team intimidating officials long before it boiled over into a physical altercation.
The ref has to be high or have laid hands on a young kid (<14). Otherwise the tournament organizer doesn't care. He will say whatever he has to in order to get rid of you. Been there.
Why the quotes? I assure you that it was, in fact, a joke. Be assured that the "oddity" you cite is merely your differential perception. You'll notice multiple people got my joke, impliedly not finding it "odd".Odd "joke".
Great question. Unfortunately, it's like the whole can't-tickle-yourself thing. I can't explain why it's so, but only that it is. Don't you watch T.V.? Lol.How does blacks attacking whites ensure that race was not a factor?
It doesn't to me - at all. Does it to you?And in any case, why does it matter whether race was a motivation?
That's another great question. You are certainly asking the right questions here, and, really, that's half the battle. The other half, of course, is being able to - as Aristotle(?) kinda said - consider an answer without accepting it as true.Isn't violence just as bad when it's done for reasons besides racism?