Hey I can totally understand how you feel. I did the same by starting when I was 14. I had many college officials help me along the way as well. This didn't hold too well with the "older" officials in the league. Now I am a college official and I just learned to keep my mouth shut, nod my head like I was really interested and let them leave. Do I change the way I am officiating? NO, I still call it the same way. Now what someone said earlier is very true, if you hear it from more than one take it a ton more seriously. In fact try to get on video tape. Still when I go to a game I don't say a whole lot unless I am asked.
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