Beastmode

Seems that juvenile adults are causing toxic environments for their kids with hooligan antics.

Indeed, parents and coaches lacking sportsmanship and civility may be to blame for a growing shortage of high school referees in California, according to reports.

“Yelling, screaming and berating the officials humiliates your child, annoys those sitting around you, embarrasses your child’s school and is the primary reason California has an alarming shortage of high school officials,” Karissa Niehoff, executive director of the National Federation of State High School Associations, wrote in a column posted by the California Interscholastic Federation, the governing body of high school sports.

Eighty percent of officials quit after two years, according to the National Association of Sports Officials, and 75 percent of officials said it’s because of the hostile behaviors of adults at games.
As The Modesto Bee reported, it didn’t matter what sport was involved, be it volleyball or soccer.

“I had a coach challenge me on a court and challenge me after the game,” said Jeff Spinelli, a basketball referee for 13 years until he quit this year. “He told me he was going to quit coaching to beat up officials he didn’t like. I called him for a technical foul and he almost incited a riot by his actions and not one person in the entire gym said anything to him or did anything.”

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/toxic...hortage-report

And what do people do when they get older? Emulate their parents and continue the tradition of attacking and berating referees. Same environment our refs were in maybe and didn't want to deal with it.