Tue Jan 11, 2005, 10:25am
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Originally posted by rainmaker
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Originally posted by nine01c
JRut: I'm sure you are a very competent official, and have been from the very beginning. I also know that varsity ball can mean anything from grossly unskilled to highly talented and competitive. I'm glad you got your chances early in your career and obviously you deserved them. Not sure what you mean by first year with a license, maybe you already had beneficial experience. I still think your story is unique. I hate to see a first year guy in over his head. Many referees move up too fast, are NOT ready, and never really improve. There they are (those 20 year vets we see) all these years later, using obsolete mechanics, or just making up their own, not switching on fouls, yada, yada.
To get back to the origin of this thread, the ref in question was not ready (according to the info given) and that's primarily what I was trying to say.
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There was a guy at a camp I attended this summer that is working D2 and has never reffed a hs varsity game in his life! Gawd's truth...
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I attended George Tolliver's camp a few years ago and all of the instructors were NBA officials. One of the instructors told me that he was invited to a D-1 camp and did his first D-1 game without doing any varsity HS games. I asked him how that happened and he told me that his assignor (HS) thought he was a smart-a** (his term) and would not assign him to varsity games. Guess it worked out fine for him because I see him several times a year doing the NBA games.
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