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Old Mon Feb 12, 2007, 09:24am
Raymond Raymond is offline
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Originally Posted by Nate1224hoops
I wanted to just crawl under the bleachers. This call was made with 2 min left in the 1st period. As you can imagine the fans and coaches were on us all night.
Sh!t, I'm a pretty decent official who works an all Varsity HS schedule and a few JuCo games and I still make a couple calls a year that make me want to crawl under the bleachers. We all blow calls. It's the ability to recognize your mistakes on your own and then learn from them that leads you to being a better official and separate you from the pack.

As a young official, your partner may not have known he missed a called. First chance you get you ask him what he saw on the play. After replaying the play in his mind he might say "You know what, I think B1 probably did trip A1. I probably should have had a whistle on that play." More than likely that's a play he'll never miss a again.
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