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Originally Posted by icallfouls
As expected, an assumption has been made. If it matters, I save all my shots for the driveway with my kids. I subscribe to the idea that you never know who is watching our games, sometimes assignors have a way of just showing up for no particular reason other than to look for new talent.
The official in question was said to have not been paying any real attention to his partner, it happens. There are times when we see people, in this case, someone close to a Board member, and he chose to speak to them. Alot of us have done it, well except for JR and Chuck. He was also offering his job to some fanboys. I have read many posts on this forum that have said essentially the same thing. Maybe the official actually came to this website and put this message into practice. Maybe since it was one officials 5th game, a call was missed, and the partner was trying to stick up for his partner by saying if you can do it better, come in and give it a try.
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I'm an assignor. Have been for years. I know how my fellow assignors think and what they want and expect from their officials also. As an assignor, and as an official, I don't agree with you or any of your assumptions, and I've never met another assignor that would agree with you either. It's simply a matter of expecting at all times a certain standard of professional behavior from the people representing our association. Sometimes we have to put up with the goobers like the one described above simply because we need bodies. That doesn't mean that we don't want to know whatinthehell is going on or that we're gonna turn a blind eye on behavior that makes all of our officials look bad. Perception is reality in the fanboy's eyes.
However, my assumption also is that you personally will never understand anyway what I'm trying to say. So....keep doing what you do and forget it.