MaxPreps.com weighs in on Temple City-Arcadia tie
Former USA Today writer Dave Krider weighs in on the Temple City-Arcadia tie from last weekend. Krider, a senior writer at MaxPreps, caught up with Joe Conte, the San Gabriel Valley Football Officials Association liaison to the CIF-Southern Section, who met with the crew Tuesday night. Yours truly makes a cameo in the story as well.
"I was almost in tears facing those guys," Conte said. "I'm not going to sugarcoat it - our officials should have done a better job asking about overtime. They probably won't sleep tonight. I can't tell you how bad they feel. This has affected 85 of us."
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Melendez worked as a correspondent for the San Gabriel Valley Tribune for three years and later landed a job as a freelance writer at the Los Angeles Times before accepting an offer at The Orange County Register covering high schools. Melendez covered Major League Soccer at The Register for three years before being promoted to report on the Lakers, Angels and Dodgers for the Web. Melendez also worked for the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Fresno Bee, Oakland Tribune and The Boston Globe. E-mail opinions, suggestions and tips to miguel.melendez@sgvn.com. |
Its something small but important in this giant mess. Ive been told by reliable sources, that Temple City's sideline was very difficult to work for the linesman and that TC repeatedly violated sideline guidelines. The official working that sideline according to sources, agonized over whether he should or should not throw a flag on them late in the game (sideline violation flag is best thrown in the first half). He should of thrown the flag and got the sideline problem taken care of. He's trying to be a "good guy" and not interfere with this type of penalty in a hotly contested game and instead it came out in a poorly timed, off the cuff comment.
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