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Originally posted by Blind & lovin' it
break through your thin candy shell man!
If everything is black and white - nothing can be discussed. Imho clerical errors are to the actual game on the basketball court as Rocky is to Differential Equations 395 - they have very little to to with each other.
If you want to say we should call everything black and white and not question it - then why say anything at all?
Why not make it a violation for clerical errors (admistrative technicals)? I already know its "because its not in the book" - but lets expand our minds just a bit. Someone had to make the rules - they weren't etched in tablets by a burning bush.
Is there anyone else in the world that thinks the administrative technicals, if enforced as written, are a bit harsh? if not, I'm on the the next topic...
for the record - I call per the rule book. But that doensn't mean I stop thinking.
[Edited by Blind & lovin' it on Dec 20th, 2005 at 04:30 PM]
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Hey, I'm the one with the thin candy shell.
The rules are there for a reason, and it's our job to enforce them. The tablets were etched in the apparent center of the universe, Indianapolis, IN, for both the National Federation and NCAA, and when they come down from the mountain it is our job to admire and adhere to those writings on the tablets.
Sure, we can discuss whether or not we like certain rules. But in this forum, as officials, we discuss the proper way of administering those rules as written. It may seem as though administrative issues don't have a role in the game itself, and perhaps on the playground they don't. But in a structured environment, the reason those rules are in place is to provide consistancy throughout the country. Also, I am certain at some point someone somewhere tried to gain an unfair advantage, so the rules committee(s) decided to include the administrative issues to close any possible unfair "loopholes".
That's what the burning bush told me.