cowboy91":36l17k8a said:
Games without certified referees and a home grown biased clock person should not count as a win or loss. When the refereeing crew shows up in shorts and black and white shirt from Academy with no patches should not count against kids that have worked all semester only to have a group of men that say they have been doing this for 30 years and still don't know how to call a football game. If you have been doing something for 30 years why don't you belong to a legit association. And then a clock person that doesn't start the clock when the referee starts it. No reason for a high school game to end at 11:30 because a dad of one of the players is running the clock. Then when I stop and get gas the white hat pulls me over to the side and apologizes and says man y'all should have won that game. Don't tell me now it's a little to late for that. Oh well another screw job by the zebra's against Parkview.
Okay, if that's the real story, let me fill you ... and any new coaches ... in on the story.
Clock folks ... it takes time to learn how to run a clock in football. I've done it and I still screw up. Maybe you hire a ref from the chapter to run clock if it's that big of a mess.
Officials are to be assigned by mutual agreement of both schools. If you're playing at Dirty Rotten Christian Academy, you have the right to know what officials they use for their game. If you don't like them, then get another chapter. Most of the chapters use some sort of officials scheduling software and you can find out who is calling your game in advance. Remember, private school sixman is kind at the bottom of the officials seniority ladder, so don't expect the chapter to send their four best guys for your game when Big City High and Crosstown High are playing for the 5A championship that night.
Once you show up and agree to start the game with Larry, Moe, Curly, and Butch on the field, well, as the preacher says at the wedding once no one objects, "forever hold your peace." And even if the white hat was crazy enough to admit and "apologize," he shoulda kept his yap shut, too.
From what I saw, the score was 60-56. It wasn't a TAPPS school you played ... TAPPS requires that you use approved officials chapters and organizations, so it was imperative for your coaches to confirm who will be officiating at your nondistrict game. My good friends at TAPPS will be happy to comiserate over this, but unless you used a TAPPS approved officiating chapter, they're going to say, too bad, so sad -- in a somewhat more diplomatic manner than I just did.
Lemme ask you. Did your team miss a block, a tackle, blow a play that cost you a touchdown or gave the other side a score? If they didn't, congrats. If they did, well, you coulda won despite the guys wearing academy shirts. Bad refs may make it harder, but you can still win despite their efforts.
