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Patrick Manning on Ref Shortage in Youth Sports
Patrick Manning
Ref Shortage in Youth Sports
Claims and stances
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Patrick Manning 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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Patrick Manning supports: Establishing stricter guidelines for parent behavior could be a viable method to address the youth sports referee shortage.
Transcript
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Yeah, this is definitely a prevalent issue, Connor.
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Um my sister is actually a ref and she is only 12 years old, and I think the minimum age for being a soccer ref is 14.
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Is it but they're so low on refs because of all of this heckling and all of this like parents just screaming at the refs, screaming at these like kids, that um they're having to hire like 12-year-olds to ref these soccer games.
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I'm not sure uh what can be done to fix it, maybe set more guidelines for the parents, but I see this issue all the time as well.