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Originally Posted by TheOracle
Rutledge, that is a great point. If you have a black team against a white team, those perceptions will always be there. Just like if you try and play in a pickup basketball game at a park, the black guys almost never pick up the white guy to run if they can avoid it. There is no avoiding anything there--officials of some race has to do that game, right?--but the film doesn't lie. Lots of conflicts of interest can be avoided. I stopped doing games for coaches I knew at all socially because they'd tell me they thought I went too far to show that I wasn't favoring them. That kind of sucks, but it is probably worth it.
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If you do this long enough, you will likely know a lot of coaches socially. After that, I couldn't care less what they think. I have a job to do and I am not working a game just because I know a coach unless that coach and I spend Christmas together.
Peace