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Originally Posted by rockyroad
But you do want senior officials who screw up rules and foul administration and won't listen to anyone who tries to tell them they are wrong??!!
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Of course not! This is the point! Combine that with a pigheaded rookie and what do you have? A very nasty problem. I have worked with senior officials like this. What I have learned is they don't move up the ladder, however, as you pursue this profession and progress up the ladder, you may run into some of these people. I think the lesson here is to stand down, report the incident or questionable call to the assigner, don't ever accept an assignment with this person ever again. Read MadCityRef input, well said MadCityRef!
A quick side note. Because I didn't keep track of this moron senior official the first time I worked with him. I got him again 2 years later. Damn! I knew I remember this guy! Objective, keep good notes....
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Wow... in this particular case the R was dead wrong, but by your standard that doesn't matter because he's the senior, more experienced guy and the younger, less-experienced guy should just go with what the senior, more experienced guy says...that's assinine.
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That is not asinine and that is not my standard, but that is our society. We should respect our seniors. Most of us are too proud to step down when the time has come. We see this in all sports. There are players who don't know when to let it go. Boxers who continue to box until they have no more brains. Didn't Sylvester Stallone just make another boxing movie, this guy is about 60 years old, George Foreman wants to fight again, come on...it's all over our society.
As far as officiating. It is unacceptable for an assigner to put a guy out there on the court who doesn't know the rules or is too old. Unacceptable, but it happens. Now what are we going to do?
I know I'm right, but...
I worked a college playoffs game 2 years ago with a guy who couldn't even run up and down the court. We had to try to leave him in the C slot. I had no idea until the game started. This official needs to give it up. The assigner got no business giving him games. This is a problem and I got no idea how to solve it.