High school basketball referee, and apparently he's got a quick whistle:
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One of the toughest jobs in high school sports is that of the referees.
Referees get little pay and face constant abuse. It is a thankless job, but one that is necessary.
Fans, coaches and players usually whine and complain about every call that goes against their team, even though most unbiased observers would say the call was justified.
The best referees are the ones that go un-noticed. They don't intrude on the flow of the game. They call the game fairly and allow the players on the court to decide the outcome.
There are rare occasions when a referee oversteps his/her bounds to become the center of attention.
Take one look at the Santa Margarita-Marina box score from Saturday's Larry Doyle O.C. Championships and one would get the impression that the Eagles and Vikings engaged in Foulfest 2009. There were 44 team fouls called, including five technical fouls on the Marina bench. That's 1.2 fouls per minute.
Marina coach Butch Fredlow and his assistant Rich Alvarez got ejected in the second quarter.
They must have been hacking each other left and right, right? Blood had to have been spilled, right? No. It was just a regular high school girls basketball game with an irregular amount of whistles.
Fredlow, like any coach, grew frustrated with the constant foul calls and picked up a technical from referee Stoney Jackson. Shortly thereafter Jackson, who starred in 1980s sitcoms such as “The White Shadow” and “227,” gave Fredlow his second technical foul.
Apparently, Fredlow told one of his stat girls, “This guy used to be an actor. His acting was as bad as his referee-ing.” Somehow, Jackson heard the comment from the other end of the court and rang up Fredlow.
That should have been that, but it wasn't. Alvarez questioned a call later in the second quarter. That got him a technical, then another technical and a third technical. It's unclear what the third technical was for because all Alvarez did was give Jackson a quizzical look.
In this case, the punishment did not fit the crime. It all made for an unwatchable game. Remember, with great power comes great responsibility.
http://www.ocvarsity.com/sports/game-18988-marina-one.html
Edited by TWS Fan, Jan 6 2010, 12:51 AM.
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