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Originally Posted by Old School
You're calling for my account to be deleted. Isn't that like punishment by hanging. And what did I do wrong again.
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Originally Posted by rainmaker
No, it's not like punishment by hanging. Punishment by hanging is fatal. No one is trying to kill you, OS. No one is calling for your account to be deleted because we disagree with your opinions. We are calling for your account to be deleted because so much of what you post would be confusing or downright misleading to people who don't have a pretty solid grounding in officiating. What you've done wrong is to continuously state things positively when they are clearly wrong, and to say many many things for which you have absolutely no evidence.
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Problem here is you are your own worse enemy. The more you try and make me look like idiot referee, the more I try to point out the flaws in the Fed. code which we all know there is plenty.
New officials, old officials don’t put down one another because they disagree or have a different opinion. Where we disagree is that you feel that what I write is bad for business. I feel that (what you write) you and your personal assaults on other referees character on this forum is bad for business. Neither should be put in front of the novice official. But you can't help yourself, can you. I think it's in the water, but some say that JR spiked the kool-aid.
The way most of you approach officiating is that you can’t have an opinion, you can’t think for yourself, and you better not make a mistake. You just read the book and follow what the book tells you to do. I am against the thought of producing rulebook robots. I want new officials to know that it’s okay to have an opinion. Question everything that you don’t understand. One day, and it’s bound to happen if you keep refereeing. One day you’re going to be faced with making a decision that you’re not quite sure of. You don’t have the rulebook in front of you to refer too. You got to go for what you know. Okay, so you kicked the call by rule. The point is, life goes on after you kicked the call. The point is, I did what I thought at the time was the right thing to do. Therefore, if it cost me my DI assignment, or my NBA job, whatever! I can still go home and sleep good at night because in my heart I did what I thought was the right thing. That is the point.