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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
I don't mind a vastly more experienced official stepping in to help administer a situation in which two of his less experienced colleagues are stuggling. However, I agree with the OP that the help ought to be confined to keeping people away from them to allow them time and space to make their decisions. The decisions about the facts of the game lie solely with the game officials and they can seek assistance from the table crew for certain things, but whether or not to DQ a player for leaving the bench is not one of those.
I would never tell any of my fellow officials to call such and such or give a certain penalty to a person in a game which I was not working, but merely observing. That's not how it works. Of course, we can certainly speak afterwards about what I saw.
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The table may help us "fix" stuff all the time...if a ball goes in and none of the officials on the floor saw it...the wrong number reported...timing errors giving definite knowledge.
If a scorer can say yes it went in, or the timer can say I saw the clock at the whistle and it said X so 3 seconds ran off, why can't the table say 25 was at the table subbing in? It is very likely that the officials and the varsity ref saw 25 stand up near the table and thought he went there from the bench.
Nobody is saying that they should make the call, but just like a partner coming to you with relevant info about a call, that info needs to be given so that the game officials can make the
correct call.