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Originally posted by jeffpea
1) Mick/Jurassic -- By extension of your logic, you are both going to call a foul or travel in the last 2,3,or 4 seconds of a 40 pt game on the losing team? Please don't be the Police Officer that writes a speeding ticket when you are traveling 1 mph over the Speed Limit!
2)Judgement is the single greatest asset an official can have. Since all contact is not a foul, you must use Judgement to determine what should and should not be called. Whether you want to admit it or not, the same skills that you use to determine what is and what isn't going to be called a travel or foul during a game are the same skills you should use to determine what you are going to call based on time/score.
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1)Jeff, please don't tell me what
my logic is. I've already told you what
my logic is. What you're alluding to above has got squat to do with what we've been discussing. You haven't been talking at all about
judgement being applied on a call. You've been talking about
pre-judging that call instead. The difference is immense. My logic is that I'm gonna try and make every damn call on it's own merits! I'm
not gonna pre-judge a call! Ever! If you wanna do so, go right ahead. I just want you to know that I disagree completely with your philosophy.
2) As for the second statement, please tell me how you can talk about "judgement" when it doesn't take any "judgement" at all to make every close call against one team only. There is
no judgement involved there at all; just favoritism. There certainly
is a skill involved to calling a travel or foul correctly. Please enlighten me as to what skill is involved in
you determining what call you're gonna make be before it even happens? No matter what, if it's close, the call you make is gonna go against the team ahead. There's not much skill attached to that philosophy, imo.