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Originally posted by Blind & lovin' it
Games get easier to call as the level increases. I had to laugh working with a guy last month who did mostly 4A HS games - he was nervewrecked by halftime during our 5th-6th grade girls AAU-type game.
My worst game of the 2005 (and that I can remember being a part of ever) so far was a frosh boys game two weeks ago. 41 fouls (23 on white, 18 on red) - and the fans said we were letting them get away with murder. At least both coaches were sympathetic - I guess they knew what they had.
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It's amazing how we can feel we have a game under control and the perception of the fans can be completely different. After a game a couple of weeks ago, I spoke to a woman in my office who was at half of a game I had worked where we called 46 total fouls (Her husband coaches another school in the conference and they were scouting). At the end of the 1st Quarter, team fouls were 9-9. We as the officials thought we had a pretty good handle on things. We weren't hearing squat from the coaches. And yet, when I talked to this lady on Monday morning, she thought we were letting one team get away with way too much.
On that same note, one of the teams involved in this game has now played 3 games this year, with total foul counts of 44, 46 and 46. I've worked 2 of those 3 games, and in neither of them did we feel like we had lost control of the game.