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According to the National Federation of State High School Associations, 80 percent of high school sports officials quit before their third year on the job.
One driving force behind the trend is increasingly abusive and belligerent behavior by parents, including verbal abuse, threats and even fights.
For example, a baseball game in June for 7-year-olds in Lakewood, Colo. descended into a wild brawl among parents after a dispute over a call by a 13-year-old umpire. Several arrests were made by police.
I used to coach youth basketball, told the parents the first time the approached me about their kids role in the team, their kid would be on the bench for 5 games.
I used to coach youth basketball, told the parents the first time the approached me about their kids role in the team, their kid would be on the bench for 5 games.
That was the rule 25 years ago when my kid played ball. If a parent misbehaved, the kid couldn't play.
I used to coach youth basketball, told the parents the first time the approached me about their kids role in the team, their kid would be on the bench for 5 games.
The best thing to do if you are a youth or a high school coach is to play the rich kids. I thought everybody knew that.
This is totally on the parents. I was a soccer referee for 26 years, coached many of those years also and played for 40. I was 20 when I started so I didn't give .02 about what parents had to say, but that was 1980. Much has changed since. Now when a young teen tries to make some extra money working in a sport many of them also play, they risk the wrath of parents that don't have the slightest clue about the game, let alone being an official.
I've witnessed and come to the defense of many younger referee's as some a$$hole parent berates them over what they think the referee did wrong in the 8 and under game.
My preference was working the adult and college games over any other simply because I hated to see how parents were making their kids lives miserable from the sidelines. Never failed during any given game a 15 year old boy or girl would tell their parents to shut up when they ragged them about how they were playing. Would be better if parents just dropped off the kids and went for coffee.
This doesn’t surprise me at all. I’ve seen a lot of bad behavior directed at umpires and refs coming from both parents and coaches during youth sporting events. Some people just lose all perspective when it comes to youth sports. It’s embarrassing and strange.
I was umpiring a T Ball game about 25 years ago, and still recall the scene of two dads rolling around in the dirt fighting one another.......I'm sure it's only gotten worse......
I was umpiring a T Ball game about 25 years ago, and still recall the scene of two dads rolling around in the dirt fighting one another.......I'm sure it's only gotten worse......
It's bad.
I have young nephews and nieces and attended a few of their games the last few years when visiting my brother.
The two greatest things about sports, which are taken away by this behavior, are
1. If you work hard enough you can achieve your goals...sometimes.
2. If you work hard enough a cheat will unfairly rob you of what you've done. Now you must eat s-hit and press on without getting your butt pampered and wiped. You just got f'd over son, now what?
Gone. Completely gone out the window because of the socialist mindset.
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