One of the tough aspects about officiating weekend youth basketball tournaments is having to switch gears in a hurry. After working a very high level AAU championship game the weekend prior, I recently had to completely change gears and officiate second and third graders the following weekend. Like second graders need to be playing traveling basketball. It’s ridiculous. During one game, I had to tell a dad three times to either get off the court or back up to give me room to officiate on the sidelines. This dad wasn’t yelling at me; he was coaching his kid. I’ve never seen anything like it. This kid is being “in-your-face” pushed so much at a young age that I guarantee there will be problems with this family dynamic. By the way, if this dad is so into these games, why didn’t he volunteer to be the head coach or the assistant coach. Seems to me, you lose that “coaching” privilege when you don’t raise your hand to volunteer.

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