Thread: Momentum Swing
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Old Mon Feb 04, 2002, 01:10pm
zebraman zebraman is offline
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First of all, you said that you started to call fouls that you hadn't called all game. I think you meant to say that you started calling fouls for contact that you had previously been ruling as inadventant. Fouls are fouls and they can't be ignored so you should be calling fouls the whole game.

If your partner started calling contact as fouls that had been ignored prior in the game, you have two choices.
1) Continue to call the game the same way.
2) Adjust your game to call tighter to match your partner. Regardless, be fair to both teams. In other words, call it tighter on team A and team B if you choose to go that route.

Is it possible that your partner felt that he/she continued to be consistent and that it was just coincidence that more contact started happening in front of him/her after the T? I see nothing wrong with officials tightening up a game that is starting to get out of control (sounds like your game was headed that way?), but I'd like to see both officials talk about that before it happens.

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