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Originally posted by WindyCityBlue
From your fingertips:
b. Part 1 exam score 97 - 5 pts., 92 – 4 pts., 87 – 3 pts., 84 – 2 pts, 80 – 1 pts.
What part of giving someone the answers doesn't make a difference? It seems to me that a couple of points are on the line.
Again, going over the test at a function is different from getting the answer key. Unless, you just sit there and right down the answers withour participating in the discussion, that is.
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I have never given the answer key. I do not know for sure what answers I received were right and what were wrong based on a key. I got my own answers and made some conclusions after many discussions with officials. The answer key has where the rules in both the Casebook and rulebook. If people want to get an idea of what answers they got right, I have no problem giving them that opportunity. It is up to them how they use what I gave them.
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I haven't done any name calling, so I guess the pressure must be getting to you. You'll never convince me that what you did was a valuable service. You were a mule...you carried the contraband to the user and now want absolution. The thing is, I don't care. I'm not the one that is going to judge you in regards to playoff eleigibility. But I will have a say when it comes to further IACAO involvement. Your principles are tarnished and no amount of excuses will clean it up.
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What pressure might that be Windy?
I think your behavior on this and other sites speaks for itself as it relates to what your principles and values. Obviously we do not share the same values and I would never want to say I did with the likes of you.
BTW, I will be speaking at IACAO Basketball Clinic on November 6 at Hoffman Estates. Let see how much we talk about rules in any of my presentations? You are welcome to come.
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The members that came to your aid had weak defenses at best. "We want to know the answers, everyone else has them." or "I just want to know how I did." I guess they have no colleagues with phones. Doesn't their state association have a working phone? How about email, they seem to be caapable to use the internet.
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Wow, you can tell the difference between a phone and the internet. Man, you sure are a good one.
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Go ahead and dilute the quality of officiating by providing the answers. Those that believe that it makes no difference are usually not the guys at the top of the talent pool. It's always easy to say that a test is not the measure of an official. Yet, professionals are still tested each year, just to keep them sharp. Hmmmmm...
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I have worked college basketball for about 5 years. I have never been tested in those rules. I have seen some self tests, but I have never been required to receive one game by passing an NCAA test. The NCAA seems to work well in getting their officials thru camps and recommendations. I read the rulebooks much more after the testing the period than I ever do during that time. Only in HS basketball are these tests used to prove to people you can work for some reason. Maybe there are some conferences out there that use a test to determine talent, but I have yet to know who they are. But I do know many that had to attend camps and meetings to prove their talent in basketball. But then again, you only work baseball, so you would not know much about that now would you?
Peace