Footfault! To Code Or Not To Code... And All Kinds of Other Fun Things!

We are the midst of the UIL playoff season and boy is it fun!  We thought we would share some of the events and comments from the past few days...

Seems that an official called a footfault on a player (which is the right thing to do) but when the player did it the next time he issued a code violation...  Seems that the official's explanation was that "I told him not to do it and he did it again so I gave him a code for not following the official's instructions."

Unique to say the least--and not something I would ever do...  (Nor would I even consider hiring an official who did this.)

ARROGANT QUOTE OF THE DAY

The "Queen of Arrogance"

I was walking by a group of women at the tournament and heard this quote, "Entitlement isn't visible when you know you have it."

So much for humility at that house...

CANDIDATE FOR HELICOPTER MOM OF THE YEAR

As the official was walking around the tournament grounds a Mother kept glaring at her.  Finally, she went up and confronted the official and said, "What are you even doing here?  You are useless!  My daughter is over there playing a match and continually playing out balls.  You need to get your butt over there and start calling the balls out for her!"

Welcome to the UIL...

INTERESTING VOTE BY THE COACHES

In UIL regional tournaments the coaches of the teams involved have quite a bit of leeway in how their specific tournament is run in regard to bathroom breaks, collegiate coaching, and other things like that.

One regional voted for something I have never heard of...  They voted to give the players a TEN MINUTE REST PERIOD between the second set and the match tiebreak!  They are already playing no-ad so this is quite interesting to say the least...  I'd have to be there to see it before I would believe it happened.