If you haven't ever officiated I would like to extend an invitation to each and every one of you guys to join the brotherhood of officials. Send your $5 to Mike Juby and get registered and go from there.
i can't wait for Jfer and gofigure to join the brotherhood. Come on fellas it's $5, a simple test over the rules, and initiation. Don't be scared of the brotherhood initiation though, it would probably be hazing if we were a club, or fraternity, but since we are a brotherhood it's all good.
two pieces of advice, make sure you have clean underwear, and a good pair of sneakers. Oh and better find out if your allergic to goat hair.
seriously though, the hardest group to officiate are the novice wrestles, and the worst coaches/ parents are the novice group. the hardest thing for all, the referee, gofigure, beeson, bronco wr., jfer, is that they were all novice once too. the next thing to accept that perhaps a mistake was made, maybe not, the life lesson for that young wrestler has to be taught, by her parents/ coach. things don't always go your way, you can't dwell on it, you have to learn from it, get better and move on. from the looks of the above posts the lesson will have to be learned by parents/ coaches, before it can be taught.