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maybe i should have covered all my @#$@#$ angles again
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Why is it a problem to cover all your angles? Saying what you mean is a valuable skill, not a pia.
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-- I don't differentiate between boys and girls officials.
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Unfortunately, undifferentiation between these officials may lead to not differentiating between the games themselves, which leads to doing a poor job, imho.
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IF you are a good official it won't take you long -- maybe the first 2 possessions -- to figure out what kind of contact can be passed and what needs to be called. Thats why you ARE A GOOD OFFICIAL.
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This can be true if you've done the prerequisite study and practice, but it is by no means automatic. A person can be a very bad boys' official, and do a great job in a girls' game if they've never seen that the two are much different.
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We are not curing disease or poverty-
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which is relevant, how?
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-we are using judgement and you either have it or not.
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I strongly disagree with this. Judgemnt can be learned. I'd bet that at least half of the top college refs have had to learn and re-learn and re-learn again to have judgment and to make the adjustments necessary as they moved up. "Instincts" are nice, but certainly not necessary!
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The only real caveat would be someone who has only done boys or girls games their whole careers -- it might take them a game or 2
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I'd venture it would take a lot longer, depending on how long their careers have been.
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but nevertheless I think an attribute of a great official is the ability to adjust to the level and style of game you are officiating that day.
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I think that's probably a good generalization, but that greatness is based on experience and study, and can't be learned in one setting.