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Connor Mcilhinney on Ref Shortage in Youth Sports
Connor Mcilhinney
Ref Shortage in Youth Sports
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Connor Mcilhinney strongly supports: The prevalence of heckling and verbal abuse toward youth sports referees, fueled by internet culture, is creating a labor shortage by discouraging people from seeking refereeing as a source of income.
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Connor Mcilhinney strongly supports: The shortage of willing referees is causing a significant number of youth sports games to be canceled.
Transcript
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I want to talk about the ref shortage in youth sports in America.
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It's uh becoming extremely prevalent in youth sports for parents and and spectators to kind of heckle refs and yell at 'em, um, 'cause it's kind of glorified on the internet.
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But because of this, it's causing a lot of people who once found joy in refing um as a good second source of income, now not wanting to do it because it's just not really enjoyable and and you're not really getting paid to heckle, you're getting paid to um ref youth sports.
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And I think this is a huge issue just because there's I remember when I was playing, this was kind of a big thing because a lot of games will get canceled, um, believe it or not, just because you don't have refs that are are willing to spend their time on weekends anymore.
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Um I really hope this changes in the near future.
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I hope people learn to kind of treat refs better and have more respect for them.