First games are Friday night!
We had a lot of trouble getting coaches this year. We had to disband a BU10 team! Fortunately we were able to absorb the kids into other teams, but it was hard. I don't know what parents are thinking!
This is really a failure of our previous coach administration - which was non-existent. We get a good surge in U6-U8, it really is pretty easy - training is online, no pressure, teams are fun. What we need to do, is encourage those guys starting in the middle of the season to think about getting the next level of training.
We did this with the referees - seeing who is having fun, supporting them, and encouraging them to go to class. We can do this with the coaches too!
However, what I hated the most were the teams where the parents didn't even bother to get back to us. I find this quite rude. I wanted to disband those teams just because! In any case, this whole division had better not expect any favors!
Showing posts with label referee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label referee. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 04, 2012
Wednesday, June 06, 2012
Turkey Tournament 2012 is moving closer!
Jay agreed to be our Referee Administrator for the tournament! He wondered a bit about what he would have to do, besides looking cool in his shades, master of his domain, kind of like the Road Boss in "Cool Hand Luke."
Essentially, the RA has to round up sufficient 'local' referees to to handle any matches that won't be covered by referee teams provided by the participating teams; verifying the eligibility/appropriateness of the referee teams provided by said teams; making sure all games are covered; and finally verifying that the referees for a particular team fulfilled their obligations thus can get their deposit back.
I have been corresponding with other regions about their tournaments, one RC told me that 70% of the teams forfeit their referee deposit! (which run about $300 per tournament!).
So far, this is the swag (Stuff We All Get):
Region tournament pins - Everyone
T-shirts - Everyone
Ref Patch - Referee
Ref Flipping Coin - Referee
Ref Food - three games and you get a greasy burger and limp french fries
Essentially, the RA has to round up sufficient 'local' referees to to handle any matches that won't be covered by referee teams provided by the participating teams; verifying the eligibility/appropriateness of the referee teams provided by said teams; making sure all games are covered; and finally verifying that the referees for a particular team fulfilled their obligations thus can get their deposit back.
I have been corresponding with other regions about their tournaments, one RC told me that 70% of the teams forfeit their referee deposit! (which run about $300 per tournament!).
So far, this is the swag (Stuff We All Get):
Region tournament pins - Everyone
T-shirts - Everyone
Ref Patch - Referee
Ref Flipping Coin - Referee
Ref Food - three games and you get a greasy burger and limp french fries
Thursday, April 12, 2012
U19 anyone?
Managed to get out and do the line on a U19 game this weekend. These kids are fast & whine a lot. They want to have you whistle every infraction for their opponents, but want you to 'let them play' when it comes to their actions.
There was the usual amount of pushing and pulling, the CR handed out simultaneous red cards,mbut got the restart wrong. Now, it could be logical to want to restart with a dropped ball,but one foul preceded the misconduct (because after the foul play stopped, making the following action misconduct) so the restart shoud be a DFK for the other team.
We had a spectacular save on my end, which resulted in a deflection. The defense fouled the kicker which resulted in a PK - but I wonder if we should have cautioned the defender for USB. I am going to rethink this each time a foul occurs in the penalty area...
Monday, March 19, 2012
How to create a Region Web site, Part II
Expanding on yesterday's post of page types, this is broken down by the type of information consumer.
(The formatting didn't port very well, so I am going to make it an ordered list...)
Parent -> Looking for: Registration
Referee -> Looking for: Information
(The formatting didn't port very well, so I am going to make it an ordered list...)
The breakdown is the information consumer, what type of information they need, then the page(s).
- Announcements
- Calendar
- Registration Information Page
- Registration Checklists
Parent -> Looking for: Team Info
- Calendar
- Team Listings (Coach info)
- Directory (Commissioner, RCA, ARC, RC)
- Game Schedules
- Statistics
- Regional Guidelines
Parent -> Looking for: Game Info
- Calendar
- Team Listings
- Game Schedules
- Field Listings
- Field Conditions
- Announcements
- Regional Guidelines
- Directory (Registrar, Commissioner, RCA,RRA, ARC, RC, Board)
- Parent Handbook
- Announcements
- Calendar
- Volunteer Listing
- Directory (Board)
- Announcements
- Calendar
- Team Listings
- Game Schedules
- Stats
- Field Listings
- Field Condition
- Directory (Commissioner, RCA, ARC, RC, Board)
- Training
- Regional Guidelines
- Announcements
- Regional Guidelines
- Directory ( Commissioner, RCA,RRA, ARC, RC)
- Announcements
- Calendar
- Game Schedules
- Refschedule.com
- Field Listings
- Field Condition
- Laws of the Game (FIFA, AYSO National Guidelines)
- Regional Guidelines
- Directory (DRI, RRA, Board)
- Announcements
- Regional Guidelines
- Laws of the Game
- Directory ( DRI, RRA, RC)
- Announcements
- Calendar
- Directory (Board)
- eAYSO
- Announcements
- Calendar
- Team Listings (Coach info)
- eAYSO
- Regional Guidelines
- Parent Handbook
- Directory (Board)
- Announcements
- Calendar
- Laws of the Game
- Refschedule.com
- Directory (Board)
- Announcements
- Calendar
- Parent Handbook
- Commissioner Guidelines
- eAYSO
- Directory (Board)
- Announcements
- Calendar
- Volunteer Listing
- Directory (Board)
How to create a Region Website, Part I
Our website sucks. We are convening a committee to discuss changes. Here's my contribution as to what we need at a minimum...
Web site design considerations
Main Page
1. Important announcements
2. Calendar
3. Field status
4. Links
a. Info pages
b. Board contact info
c. Area pages
Information Page(s)
1. Team Pages
a. Schedules
b. Standings/Stats
c. Team information
d. Contact information (Coaches)
2. Coaches Pages
a. Information
b. Training
c. Class schedules
d. Rules/guidelines
e. Coach management contact info
3. Referee Pages
a. Information
b. Training
c. Class Schedules
d. Rules/Guidelines
e. Referee management contact info
4. Field information
a. Field locations
b. Field maps
c. Field status
d. Field management contact info
5. Volunteer pages
a. Positions
b. Open positions
c. Board contact list
Web site design considerations
Main Page
1. Important announcements
2. Calendar
3. Field status
4. Links
a. Info pages
b. Board contact info
c. Area pages
Information Page(s)
1. Team Pages
a. Schedules
b. Standings/Stats
c. Team information
d. Contact information (Coaches)
2. Coaches Pages
a. Information
b. Training
c. Class schedules
d. Rules/guidelines
e. Coach management contact info
3. Referee Pages
a. Information
b. Training
c. Class Schedules
d. Rules/Guidelines
e. Referee management contact info
4. Field information
a. Field locations
b. Field maps
c. Field status
d. Field management contact info
5. Volunteer pages
a. Positions
b. Open positions
c. Board contact list
Friday, March 02, 2012
12 years and counting...
Wow. We started playing soccer 12 years ago; since that time I've been a coach, a referee, a referee instructor, referee instructor evaluator, statistician, an Assistant Regional Comissioner, and Director or Referee Instruction. My blogging here has been sporadic; I doubt that anyone has ever read these pages (except me). But I press on...
Our region's leadership has been a problem for the past 5 years. The RC was checking out his 2nd year - to be fair, his predecessor had done some serious damage to the volunteer infrastructure and the new guy was done. The next RC finished the job, driving away most of the serious volunteers, and keeping sycophants and cronies around, ignoring the regional guidelines for her self serving purposes, and generally screwing up the region and driving away whole families.
We have a new RC now; we have a board that seems willing to work hard together - but we still are having trouble with lone wolfs making unilateral decisions affecting other people and their jobs. This has already lead to the registrar resigning in disgust.
Hopefully, all will get better; it can hardly get any worse!
Our region's leadership has been a problem for the past 5 years. The RC was checking out his 2nd year - to be fair, his predecessor had done some serious damage to the volunteer infrastructure and the new guy was done. The next RC finished the job, driving away most of the serious volunteers, and keeping sycophants and cronies around, ignoring the regional guidelines for her self serving purposes, and generally screwing up the region and driving away whole families.
We have a new RC now; we have a board that seems willing to work hard together - but we still are having trouble with lone wolfs making unilateral decisions affecting other people and their jobs. This has already lead to the registrar resigning in disgust.
Hopefully, all will get better; it can hardly get any worse!
Monday, August 15, 2011
Sportsmanship Matters - part two
Here is something I wrote for the parents, to explain the new policy:
Sportsmanship: fair play, respect for opponents, and gracious behavior in winning or losing.
Sportsmanship matters: The coaches and referees are volunteering their time – not just for this game, but also in practice, training, and certification. They deserve to be treated as you would expect to be treated.
Sportsmanship matters: Kids make mistakes; shouting directions at them is at best confusing, at worst contradictory to what the coach is directing and training them to do. Let them play, and they will learn to make decisions on the field.
Sportsmanship matters: The referee team has been extensively trained in the Laws of the Game; their knowledge of the Laws and nuances of the Game may be more extensive than yours. Certainly shouting at the referee won’t improve the game, and can lead to loss of points and dismissal from the field!
Sportsmanship matters: The Region, the referees, the coaches, and the players are all counting on YOU, the parents, to be good role models.
Sportsmanship matters: So much, that the Board has instituted a new regulation: teams which don’t earn at least 95% of the maximum sportsmanship points for the year are not eligible for the playoffs. There are 25 possible sportsmanship points each game – losing 2 points every game will make a team ineligible!
Coach’s and player’s behavior can affect sportsmanship points, but so can spectator’s behavior. Of the five categories for sportsmanship, two are related to spectators. Below is an excerpt from the Region’s sportsmanship guidelines that are given to each referee – the sole arbiter of sportsmanship during a game.
These deductions are per incident during the game, and are cumulative.
Conduct of Spectators
For a warning or caution -1
For a send off -5
Violation of the standards of good sportsmanship -1
Noticeable acts of good sportsmanship toward other team +1
Courtesy towards Referee (includes comments about referee calls)
Discourtesy by a coach -1
Discourtesy by a player -1
Discourtesy by a spectator -1
Noticeable acts of courtesy +1
Sportsmanship: fair play, respect for opponents, and gracious behavior in winning or losing.
Sportsmanship matters: The coaches and referees are volunteering their time – not just for this game, but also in practice, training, and certification. They deserve to be treated as you would expect to be treated.
Sportsmanship matters: Kids make mistakes; shouting directions at them is at best confusing, at worst contradictory to what the coach is directing and training them to do. Let them play, and they will learn to make decisions on the field.
Sportsmanship matters: The referee team has been extensively trained in the Laws of the Game; their knowledge of the Laws and nuances of the Game may be more extensive than yours. Certainly shouting at the referee won’t improve the game, and can lead to loss of points and dismissal from the field!
Sportsmanship matters: The Region, the referees, the coaches, and the players are all counting on YOU, the parents, to be good role models.
Sportsmanship matters: So much, that the Board has instituted a new regulation: teams which don’t earn at least 95% of the maximum sportsmanship points for the year are not eligible for the playoffs. There are 25 possible sportsmanship points each game – losing 2 points every game will make a team ineligible!
Coach’s and player’s behavior can affect sportsmanship points, but so can spectator’s behavior. Of the five categories for sportsmanship, two are related to spectators. Below is an excerpt from the Region’s sportsmanship guidelines that are given to each referee – the sole arbiter of sportsmanship during a game.
These deductions are per incident during the game, and are cumulative.
Conduct of Spectators
For a warning or caution -1
For a send off -5
Violation of the standards of good sportsmanship -1
Noticeable acts of good sportsmanship toward other team +1
Courtesy towards Referee (includes comments about referee calls)
Discourtesy by a coach -1
Discourtesy by a player -1
Discourtesy by a spectator -1
Noticeable acts of courtesy +1
Sportsmanship Matters
I got tired of sportsmanship being a sidebar.
Our coaches can ignore sportsmanship completely, perhaps miss a game or two and move right on.
Normally sportsmanship is a tie-breaker; however the top teams rarely are close enough that they would be in a tie - so there was no real reason to cultivate sportsmanship.
Last year we tried tying sportsmanship to the points accrued; for instance, if the team would have normally scored 10 points for a 3-0 shutout, but only receved 90% of the sportsmanship points (missed 2 points, for instance) - the team would only receive 9 points.
This really only affected a few of the mid-level teams, so once again was not a real attention getter.
THIS year, we have a new plan: if a team fails to maintain 95% of their maximum sportsmanship points - they are not eligible for playoffs, after season play, etc...
Our coaches can ignore sportsmanship completely, perhaps miss a game or two and move right on.
Normally sportsmanship is a tie-breaker; however the top teams rarely are close enough that they would be in a tie - so there was no real reason to cultivate sportsmanship.
Last year we tried tying sportsmanship to the points accrued; for instance, if the team would have normally scored 10 points for a 3-0 shutout, but only receved 90% of the sportsmanship points (missed 2 points, for instance) - the team would only receive 9 points.
This really only affected a few of the mid-level teams, so once again was not a real attention getter.
THIS year, we have a new plan: if a team fails to maintain 95% of their maximum sportsmanship points - they are not eligible for playoffs, after season play, etc...
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