High school basketball referees don't want to monitor postgame handshake

Ding ding ding.

The refs -- and I was one for years, in basketball and baseball -- shouldn't be anywhere near the court when the teams are lining up for a handshake. They should already be in their cars. Any "monitoring" should be done by security, school administrators and nobody else.

 

Refs don't make enough to stand in for proper police protection.

 

I've always seen the officials bolt after games, even fast when they suck, which in high school they typically do.

 

Indiana refs are off the floor as soon as the final buzzer sounds.

If it's a close game or they're in some hick town where every game is life and death and the fans think it's their birthright to officiate the game for the guys in the stripes (which covers about 75% of the state), they're off the floor in a dead sprint as soon as the buzzer starts sounding.

 

Exactly. Whoever thought this one up was stoopid.

 

When I was umpiring high school baseball, we were strictly told to get the hell off the field the second the game was over. I was confronted a few times outside the gate, but there is certainly more of an escape route.
And it's not like I ever did a whole lot of games with more than a couple hundred people at them. I can't imagine a basketball game (or whatever) with a couple thousand.

 

At a game near us recently, a girl punched out another girl in the post game handshake. The police of the knocked out girl's town pulled over the other teams bus and gave the girl a ticket.

 

they should have cuffed her and booked her ass. if it were a boy, i assure you they would have.

 

Not that I condone this type of behavior but.....

I've heard of people spitting (or worse) in their hands moments before the postgame shake and then going out to shake hands as a way of saying: "Hey, nice game, go f*** yourself". If someone did something like that and i was on the receiving end, you can bet your bottom dollar i'd be reluctant to contain myself.

 

Saw Ted just after Knight resigned and asked, "So whatcha gonna do now?"

TV Ted: "I just bought me a red Cadillac STV. Red, (Hwy). Red. Just for him."

 

That's the MIAA for you -- a virulent combination of stupidity and arrogance. So glad I don't have to deal with them anymore.

 

you and michael jackson are bad.