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Originally posted by sportsannouncing
I'm not saying I'm the best official out there, far from it. What I am saying and really asking, is why are the same officials making the same bad calls every year? Then complaining they don't get different results. It's frustrating to hear "If I call everything, then everyone would've fouled out by the end of the first half," and have the referee believe it.
"If you call the first foul, the resulting fouls wont occur," Dick Vitale.
It's true. Plus, a player with no fouls plays differently than if he has three or four.
But this is part of the problem that's going on and until it's realized, it's going to continue. It is easily possible to go through a season without having any fights in high school games. When there was a fight at a game in Northern Virginia, the first question among fans wasn't "Who started it", it was "Who were the officials". When we found out, we understood why it happened.
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When you are ready to solve the problem, as opposed to just ragging at anyone who will let you type on their board, I suggest you call the assignor of the refs you don't like, and ask him or her some neutral, information-only questions. Don't argue with the answers, just think about them.
Then go home and ask what YOU could do to help solve the problem. maybe if refs weren't getting abused by everyone in the gym, they might get out of their God-complex and call things a little more loosely. No, wait, you want refs to call tighter...
except that you "don't call anything except assault..." and that's the way everyone ought to do it...
oh, I see, that applies to boys frat ball, but you care more about girls ball? college women, does that mean, or high school?
No, you said fights are what upsets you most, so that's boys, is that high school? Or frat boys?
Okay, S.A., answer this one: Which concern are you really concerned about? I'm kinda lost...