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Originally posted by tomegun
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Rainmaker, Mick, Jurassic, you can't possibly agree when an official admits to not knowing the climate of the game to the point where the game is a 24 point game within 2 minutes. Maybe you can, but IMHO that is a failure on our part (we have all made mistakes).
[/B][/QUOTE]Tom, I think that Ace posted this knowing that he really didn't do a very good job of handling this sitch.I think that he just wanted a little feedback from his peers. It was a learning situation for him, just as it was for us when we did the exact same type of thing in our formative years. To be quite honest, I don't like second-guessing any official who hands out a T in the type of situation that Ace described. I also don't like getting on his butt that much either- mainly because he was there and I wasn't, and I can't possibly know every nuance of everything that was going down.
Having said that, I also think that Ace posted this sitch looking for honest feedback on how to handle the play better next time. He did get honest feedback, even though it was pretty blunt at times. Now it's up to Ace to sift through all the replies and pick out what HE thinks will help him out the most next time that he finds himself in a situation like this. It's called "learning through experience". And we all went through it. And we're all STILL going through it, whether we want to admit it or not.