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Originally Posted by Scrapper1
Sarcasm aside, btaylor is exactly right, IMHO. How do you pre-game it? Exactly how he said it. If you completely screw the pooch and call a PC on an obvious block, I'm not going to intentionally screw the pooch on the next one just to make up for your bad call.
But when you judge that first bang-bang too-close-to-call crash a block, then if I have bang-bang too-close-to-call crash, it's gonna be a block. If it's NOT close, and clearly a PC, then I'm going to call it a PC. But I'm going to try to remember that the really close one that could have gone either way was a block.
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Oh, I get it now. You don't pre-game it. You wait for the first close call. If that's a block, then every close call by every official for the rest of the game has to be a block also. Or if the first close call was a charge, then every close call by all officials for the rest of that game should be a charge also. Heckuva idea, Skippy. Sure makes it a heckuva lot easier too. It takes all of the judgment and thought out of the calls. Officiate by numbers.
Of course, you do have to keep a real good watch on all of your partner's calls at the start of the game to make sure that the first call that they make was a really close one.
Naw, that's way too complicated and
nouveau wave for dumb ol' me. I'll just continue trying to make up my own mind on each call as to what I think it should be.....even though all the extra thinking required does make my head hurt.
