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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
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Originally posted by Camron Rust
If your partner got it wrong and everyone (except perhaps him) knows it, there's no reason to cover it up when asked. Your partner put you in that position by not knowing the rules. It's not like judgement where we should back up our partner.
I'd answer the coach, "Yes, you're right. I can't change his call, well discuss it at half-time".
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Oh,my. That's called "hanging your partner out to dry" imo. I would never, ever say that to a coach. As soon as you say that, your partner just lost all of his credibility for the rest of that game, and maybe even longer in that coach's eyes. I might, under some circumstances, admit to a coach that I might have missed a call, but I'm never going to tell a coach that one of my partners blew one. I'll leave that up to my partner.
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For some reason, I never saw the responses in this thread until now.
It's my opinion that my partner hung himself out to dry by not knowing a basic rule that even the mom waiting outside in the car knows.
Like I said, I would never offer this, only if the coach asked about it. To do anything else would be a disservice to the team and would be dishonest. We're out there for the kids 1st. We set a very important example. Our integrety and honesty is of highest importantance and the kids need to see people in authoritative positions demonstrating these traits.
Today's society is full of a bunch of finger pointers and putting blame on someone else or denying culpability. I try to not be one of them. As a crew we make mistakes together. When I make a mistake and am questioned, I admit it. When my partner makes one and I'm asked, I admit it.
I'm not talking about anything that involves judgement...just absolutes. If it involves whether a player did or didn't step on the line or why he did/didn't call a foul, I'll either confirm my partner's call, if I saw it and know why he called it, or refer them to my partner if I don't.
It's not supposed to be
us against them. I think the coaches trust and respect us more if we appear to be working with them and not appear unapproachable by brushing them off all the time. This includes addmitting our mistakes.
Also, this was a JH game. The point is learning and improvement...for both the teams and often the officals. It's OK to show them we're working on it.
Make the case even more extreme. Partner blows whistle and calls a backcourt violation during a free throw or calls traveling on a player who doesn't have the ball (and is not near it), or calls a player control foul on the player dribbling the ball in the backcourt when every other player is 30 feet away.