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Old Wed Jan 16, 2008, 12:19pm
Coltdoggs Coltdoggs is offline
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Remember when the whistle blows, there is no hurry....I see so many new refs (and did it myself)...rush through the reporting to the table, in a hurry to get in the new position and go.

Draw eye contact, speak clearly and just don't be in a hurry....the game is not going anywhere without you and your crew.

Second thing I can say is EYE CONTACT and non verbal contact with partner...if you work with the same few guys, you'll get in some easy non verbal contact that will make things easy for you both as reminders... A couple guys I work with, we motion a few hand signals at various time to each other to note 1/1 coming up on next foul or when the clock hits the 1:00 mark. You can come up wiht your own....HEck our 1/1 hand signal looks like some sort of gang sign where you mesh your index and pinky fingers together...Index's for home, pinkies for vistors...both for both!

From the desk of Nevada....respond to questions, not comments from coaches...and I believe it was JRut who said "They can't quote silence".

Finally...have FUN...it sounds like you are already doing that part...
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