[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

You have not convinced me that soccer is more difficult to officiate that basketball. Basketball does have flow like soccer and soccer has stoppages just like in basketball. I find basketball easy to officiate because I have been officiating the sport for 31 years, but high school soccer is no more difficult to officiate than basketball. If fact I could probably make a case that basketball is more difficult because while there are only ten players in basketball compared to the 22 in soccer, the basketball court (which is far smaller than a soccer pitch) means that a basketball official must make hundreds of yes/no decisions in a game of basketball, which if studies were ever done would be far more than the number of decisions that a soccer official makes in a game.

But in the final analysis, I found the soccer is really no more difficult that basketball to officiate, other than it took me almost two years to apply the advantage clause in soccer without having to "think" about the play.