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Old Wed Oct 26, 2005, 11:44am
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parepat, I just returned to the office after dropping off a blank VHS tape in the mail over at the post office. As trained / certified officials I think it's fair to say that each official should know his responsibilities.

There's nothing wrong with requesting films. Then share the film and talk about specific situations and what you can do together. You can then say "hey Bill, take a look at the 1st play of the 2nd quarter. Do you think we got a good spot on that?"

Now everyone is in a "fishbowl" looking from the outside. Officials who know their responsibilities can see for him/herself what's being missed, then you can talk about things that happened in preGame.

I don't request films every week but a couple of times a year. The reception I got from an AD list was extremely positive. He said "in all the years I've been doing this you're the first referee that has EVER asked for a film. That's great that you evaluate yourselves."

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