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Originally Posted by blindzebra
Wow!
When you are working middle school, JV and rec ball...NEWSFLASH...you are going to have bad partners.
That said, David, you have several officials...all working high school varsity, state playoffs HS varsity, college ball of varying levels, and someone who hires, trains and fires officials...telling you what you are proposing isn't going to cut it, if you want to be the best official you can be.
That isn't our collective egos talking...FYI, you're the one spouting the get it right line, as if only you can get it right...it's experience, working knowledge of how things work, and most important WORKING KNOWLEDGE OF HOW THINGS WORK WITH PARTNERS YOU TRUST!
So my advice is pay attention...I work some middle school, youth, and rec ball too, along with the higher levels that I do...I do this because I love officiating and these games give me some extra cash, and chances to work on my game without the pressure, but it also gives me the chance to do my part in making some of the officials I work with at that level better.
Some are eager to learn the RIGHT WAY to do things.
Some don't want any part of improving and insist on making calls all over the court, many of which ARE WRONG BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT IN POSITION TO SEE THE ENTIRE PLAY, care to guess who was?
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And again, with the presumption that the calls are wrong simply because the person in the position who made the call wasn't in what the NFHS or you guys think is the only position you can see calls right from. As I said before - you folks assume that because it is not in your primary, you WILL make the wrong call, or that you can't see everything because it's not in your primary. Apparently, once my vision goes beyond 10-12 feet, everything I see is wrong. Guess I better stop driving then, because every time I try to avoid an obstacle coming at me, it's not where I see it or it's not what I think it is, or it's moving differently from what I'm seeing it moving as.
I see your point - and the fact that you have partners of varying abilities at various levels. However, to assume you are the only person who can call anything right in your primary area is incorrect. To assume every call you make outside your primary area is incorrect is incorrect. I'm not advocating throwing primaries out completely - I'm advocating less of the "Don't fish in my pond" and more "working together". To me, working together isn't saying "You call your area and i'll call mine, and if we miss something in our area, we better just stay in our area and not help each other out" - That's what this "You take care of your business and i'll take care of mine" is coming across as.