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Originally posted by A Pennsylvania Coach
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Originally posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
The real problem is that there are too many officials who are just like her and too many of them have far more years of experience that she does.
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Each and every time one of you wants to call us howler monkeys, remember this quote. The reason some of us howl is because some of us know the rules better than some of you, and we can talk some of you into calls. If I get this official, I'm going to start quoting rules passages and citing references in my howling.
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Coach, in 31 years of officiating basketball, I know only two high school coaches that knew the rules. Notice I said knew the rules, not knew the rules better than the officials. The first one, was my high school coach, who believed that you could not teach the game if you did not know the rules. The second one, who is a varsity coach, who has the same philosophy and is a good young official to boot. I keep trying to lure him from the dark side and only officiate.
Regardless of the competency of the officials, the vast majority of officials (good, bad, or indifferent) should score better than most coaches on a rules test.