Thread: Calling Fouls
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Old Sat Dec 18, 2004, 11:00am
zebraman zebraman is offline
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Originally posted by johnnyrao
Does anyone track the number of fouls called by each individual ref. At half-time a veteran from our association came and gave us some pointers. One thing he said was that R1 called 6 fouls, R2 called only 1, and R3 did not call any. He said we sgould be mindful of this and make sure no one official calls more fouls than the others. I see his point in the perception of how we are doing our job, but what if most of the fouls just happen to be in one Refs area? Is this good advice or bad?
I don't count them, but I'm aware when one of the officials in our crew is either calling most or hardly any. That's something we would talk about briefly during a time-out to get on the same page. Also, if I know a partner hasn't called many, I'll let him take the next foul on a double whistle, even if it's in my primary.

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