NJ HS football ref moves ball and chains to give team first down

Reminds me of…

In Louisiana there's such a shortage of officials that you get people who literally don't know what they're doing.

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The lack of qualified refs is exasperating the problem as coaches and fans get frustrated with a lack of quality refs and smaller crews.

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It’s a vicious cycle. Refs don’t want to do it because of a-hole players, coaches, and parents that complain about everything. So we get inexperienced and bad officiating and the criticism gets worse, so people are less likely to become officials.

I do feel bad for the ones that do it right. For the most part, we have had great officials this year and they’ve been friendly and talk through the questionable calls with professionalism. But we’ve been burned a couple of times on missed calls on special teams because we haven’t had a full crew all year

Trola- horse collar tackle isn’t a foul in HS football if he’s tackled going forward. Grabbing the collar in and of itself isn’t a foul.

Dude will be the head ref in Baton Rouge next Saturday night.

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rola- horse collar tackle isn’t a foul in HS football if he’s tackled going forward. Grabbing the collar in and of itself isn’t a foul.

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You’re right but…
It is when the player is on the side and pulled down and the knees buckle My argument was.

He had a clear hand in the shoulder pads at his side while running and and went down on his side causing both of their momentum to go forward but also to the side as his knees buckled and landed on top of the defender. The defender left his feet and used the grip on the pads to pull him down. His argument was simply him falling forward to the side negated the horse collar regardless of knees buckling and positioning. Our player was actually injured on the play which is the whole point of the rule.

This dude haunted LSU for years….

That’s terrible…what was the outcome of the game?

A guy I know, his dad was a HS ref for the longest time and was able to become a member of the chain gang for LSU home games. Actually he is still with the chain gang but doesn't ref HS anymore.

What happens is that the better, most experienced refs get assigned to the bigger matchups. In Louisiana, I think they have things divided in regions. I think there is the New Orleans area, Baton Rouge area, Hammond area, Lafayette, Lake Charles, etc.

This was years ago, but at the time the guy told me that the the New Orleans and Shreveport area had the most experienced refs, but then you have guys who are alternatives because its common for first year refs to not show up to a game and pretty much quit without telling anyone so most HS games will have average at best refs.

The ref in the video is pitiful. I read somewhere that he had relatives playing on the team he gave the first down to. No telling if its true, I saw it on social media so I took it with a grain of salt.

Damn, that was some gangsta level shite. Chain gang just looked away