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Originally Posted by Old School
That's because this young man coming out here gloating about his success is a backhanded slap in the face to the many officials who have been doing this much much longer.
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Then don't bother with the backhanded compliment. You're making assumptions and imputing motives where you have no right to do so. He wasn't gloating so much as venting. If someone mentioning that they had a playoff game offends you....
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How do you know that? The assumption here, which I don't think is right or fair, is that all the people who didn't get selected, are undeserving.
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It might help if you actually read the quotes you're using in your posts. He didn't say "all" such people are undeserving.
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To bring this discussion full circle for me. I'm going to give you 2 examples and hopefully this will rest my case.
#1.) The tape don't lie. I've been to the camps and I know 3-person mechanics and I'm sitting here watching the start of a playoff game and the U1 is standing in front of the table on the jump ball. His position is like it's a 2-person game. You know this guy doesn't know 3-person.
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This tells me you live in a state that is just recently going to three person mechanics. And again, you're making an assumption that isn't warranted. Just because a guy goes to the wrong position once doesn't mean he doesn't know 3 person mechanics. At most, it shows he has recently worked a significant amount of 2-person and momentarily lost track of the opening mechanic.
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#2.) Things that I have heard from some pregame discussions. NCAA official says, has there been any changes to HS rules this year? I haven't work any HS games at all this year. Now, how does a college official who hasn't work any HS games this year, get a HS playoff assignment?
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Are you saying you were involved with the pregame discussion for a playoff game? I don't know of a single state where an official who hasn't worked a single HS game can get a playoff game. In both states I've worked in, it's not possible. In every other state I've heard about with regard to this, it's not possible. I'm calling you out on this. In what state can an official get a playoff game without having done a single HS varsity game all season?
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Now, you throw in a young guy in his twenties and you expect me to believe that there is no problems in the selection process!
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I'm confused about your problem. Are you upset that the old guys keep getting playoff assignments? Are you upset that young guys keep getting playoff assignments? Or are you upset that you haven't got a playoff assignment?
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You expect me to believe that all is well and this guy earned his way in! You also want me to believe that this is not political. Maybe it doesn't rise to any global ramifications like what we are facing in our society today, but it is certainly political. If you want to argue that it's not, then maybe we need to make it political in order to get a satisfactorily resolution.
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That's right. Call your congressman.
