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Message: [QUOTE="uchuskies2009, post: 3593160, member: 2156"] Completely agree about the under qualified official thing (I've had partners on JV games that struggle to even get to the right place on the court, which brings the entire crew's integrity into question without a call even being made). As another poster went on to mention, scheduling can be political at times, but going back to my previous point, it's more likely that there is an issue with not having enough qualified officials to cover all the games. It happens everywhere in the country, especially in the more rural areas where you have about 50 qualified officials trying to cover a large territory. Sometimes the younger, inexperienced officials need to fill in, especially later in the year when some of the veteran officials suffer an injury or get sick. As for the technical foul being issued to your wife in the stands, that wasn't handled properly. In the last two years, the NFHS has updated the rule book to require a pre-game conference with the officials and "site management". The officials are supposed to discuss how unruly fans will be handled. The official in your story should have gotten a school resource officer, principal, AD, etc. involved and had your wife removed from the game instead of directly interacting with them. If she intentionally delayed leaving the gym, the official (or better yet, one of her partners on the crew) should have went to you and discussed that your wife needed to leave and any further delay would result in a technical to you. Handling it this way likely would have at least avoided one of the T's to you and your team. Inexperience in that situation sounds like it cost your team a potential win (but also think about what else transpired in that game that may have led to a loss as surely you know that a game is typically not decided by one or two bad calls LOL). I firmly believe in creating a dialogue with the coaches I work for as best that we can. Typically it promotes a better game atmosphere for both of us. During the pre-game meeting with the coaches, I will tell them that we won't respond to statements, but we will do our best to answer questions that they may have during a dead ball. Free throws and timeouts are the best opportunities for meaningful Q&A during the game. I'm not stopping the flow of the game to walk across the court and explain to the coach why I didn't call that 3 seconds after the five consecutive missed shot attempts and little Timmy never moved out of the paint. It amazes me at how many coaches (more so parents) at the lower levels don't understand that rule LOL. [/QUOTE]

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