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Originally Posted by BadNewsRef
I went to a camp 2 years ago here in Virginia in which the camp directors didn't speak too fondly of what was be taught by the folks further down south.
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From my experience, you can not only get different opinions from conference to conference, you can also get different opinions from official to official within a conference. Jmo, but I think that you have to form your
own opinion on some calls and then try to be consistent to your beliefs. Of course, if your evaluators in a league you're working in tell you to call something a certain way, you'd also better damn well do as they suggest.
Personally, I'm in the camp that says if a defender knocks an airborne shooter down with contact, a foul should be called on the defender- all-ball or no all-ball. A shooter is just way too vulnerable up there imo. I also believe, however, that you can't make an absolute blanket rule to that effect. You might get a play where the shooter goes down, and you really don't think the circumstances warrant a foul at that particular time. Wishy-washy, eh?
I do know that SEC football officials have been trained differently than most other conferences, and very few other conferences' officials' groups agree at all with the SEC way of doing things.