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"In such a situation, the "rookie" on the crew is going to look bad. And when I say look bad, I mean that official's reputation is going to be damaged with the coaches involved. Whether he makes the call or gives help, he's screwed."
This is why so many officials are taught to "referee safe."
I've heard too many stories of officials being outcasts simply because they tried to help their crew "do the right thing." Unfortunately there are egos out there that won't allow decisions to be questioned.
My first year of JUCO ball my supervisor told me to go out
and "not do anything to get yourself noticed" basically
referee safe.
I had a situation in a game where my partner called a T on a player for hanging on the rim. From my position in trail, I notice that two players are underneath him. So I go to him
and offer information. He stuck with his call. I later had a taunting technical on this same player (after looking at tape, it was not a good call) which now resulted in his ejection. My point is, if my partner had accepted my input on the hanging on the rim, (which on tape was not justified as clearly players were underneath him)
the ejection wouldn't have happened. (For another post we can discuss game awareness which I was lacking when I called the second T on this player. I had forgotten that he already had one and would not have called it if I had realized this.)My personal feeling is if my parnter is sticking his neck out to come to me with added information,
99.5 percent of the time, I will go with his information.
That's why I enjoy working with the Pro officials I've had the priveledge to work with. They are concerned with getting the play right, rather than feeding their ego's.
Drake
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