[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by Old School

That's just the way you're reading into it. Yes, I screwed up, kicked it, whatever term you want to spin on it.

Huh? What "spin" are you talking about? It's a direct quote from your post.

Originally Posted by Old School

The same type of play, the same type of defense, the same type of contact will be a foul down there too.

Agreed. As long as the call was correct on one end, it will be a correct call on the other end. Consistency has to do with be consistently correct - from play to play, between officials, between games, from night to night. If, in your opinion, a certain type of contact should be called a foul, then yes, be consistent with continuing to call that foul. And, as a crew, your partners should call that same contact as a foul as well. But if I make a mistake, I will not make a second, third or fourth incorrect call in the name of consistency. That is as silly as a player telling a coach, "Sorry I missed that free throw coach, but I'll go ahead and miss the rest of them so I can consistent." If I make a bad call, I will work even harder to make sure I don't make that same call again.