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Originally Posted by jeffpea
I first heard about this type of thinking (let your partner live and die w/ his calls) a couple of years ago and it was an "East Coast" mentality. As the paychecks for D1 games have increased significantly in the last few years....and since I don't yet receive them and would definitely like to....I'll do what the supervisor of the league I'm working in that night dictate my actions. I'd like to think the crew would "get the call" right - that's ALWAYS the goal! However, I'm smart enough to know that in the crazy world of officiating, you can be right and wrong all at the same time.
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Jeff, I understand where you're coming from and wanting to get the call right, that is what all of us want. What I like to think about is why we have primary coverage areas. We have primary coverage areas because those are the parts of the floor we can see and get good angles with. When you go out of your primary you probably don't have the best look at the whole play. At camps this summer I've heard statistics that when we go across the lane as L we are wrong much more than we are right. That's why we have primary coverages.
Last season I helped out another veteran crew in the area. I knew them only by reputation before we met for the ride. Early in the game I was L and one of the veterans was C. There was a HUGE crash to the floor on a drive around the second lane space opposite from me. It looked like crap from my perspective and there wasn't a whistle. Being new to the crew, I passed and asked about it at a dead ball. The defensive player took a dive and it was no-called. Had I gone out of my primary to make what looked like the right call to me (probably a PC) I would have been dead wrong.