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Hey Starman, I think some of my fellow officials would like to string you up by your ****s and hang you from a tree.
Despite some of the comments directed your way that because you are not an official, you cannot possibly know what you are talking about, I think we are mostly in agreement, that in the the situations you descibe, the defensive player has not fouled, there shoud be a PC foul called, or in the case of the offensive player attempting to go around the LGP defensive player and initiating some minor contact, a no-call, no matter how ugly the shot attempt ends up looking.
I think your bigger concern is consistency among officials in making this call. Consistency among officials will always be an issue. See your other thread on advantage/disadvantage.
What standardized training re: these types of calls is given to officials at the high school level? And how is this kind of thing monitored and/or corrected from game to game for individual officials?
I work in your state, there is little/no standardized training for officials. You pass an open book test, bingo, you are a registered high school official. MN tends to leave training to individual associations or summer camps. It's hard to be an independent, the Minnesota State High School League encourages officials to join an association. Our association has a rookie program for new officials and we are are starting to do some observing within the association. Post game reviews w/your partner(s) help all officials improve. The better officials are going to get more games, the poorer officials will get weeded out. Understand it's not an exact science.
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