I appreciate the sentiment of this and largely agree. However, Barrington parents and many others do the exact same thing. Let's not throw stones in glass houses
I made this exact point in my post. Not singling out Palatine. Lots of schools do it. I grew up in Barrington, but spent a lot of time in the surrounding suburbs. I consider our little area of the northwest suburbs my home. I have spent more money at JL’s Pizza than everyone on this board combined. Would never throw stones at Palatine. Was just making an underlying point as a fellow official. We constantly take verbal abuse. And you’re sitting there thinking OK I drove an hour and a half to get to your kids football game, there’s a shortage of officials, I’m going to net about $60 after this and I get home late to my family. We are literally only a few officials quitting away from these kids not being able to play. Or having to play varsity games/underclass games mid week.
I don’t think people understand how dire it is. We get high priority emails every single Friday saying please help officials needed for tonight’s game. Not to mention a lot of these officials are cops and firefighters, and many also umpire the kids baseball games and officiate their basketball games, pop warner etc.
I promise you when those officials watched that game back during their post game beer together they were sick about some of the mistakes.
