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I agree...but who do you need to admit it to?
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Your crew, for starters. If the crew chief decides it's in everybody's best interests that it be a "crew IW" as far as everybody is concerned, fine.
But IF (and it's an "if" with a capital "media report,") this is true:
Smith said crew chief Rick Stannard couldn't tell him which member of his five-man officiating crew made the mistake.
"No one would take ownership of blowing the whistle," Smith said.
that ain't right.
"Wouldn't tell him," fine. "Couldn't tell him" supposes that he wanted to.
You may think that a crew is a crew is a crew and [B Joel] we said we'd all go down together[/B Joel] and I'm fine with that. While I might say (to myself) after a game, "Boy, I'm glad it wasn't me who kicked that call," the truth is we all share in the crew's successes and failures. We can't function effectively otherwise.
My point was that IF the official who blew the IW wouldn't own up to it to his crewmates (again, IF, as one might surmise from the story*), that's not honorable. I wouldn't want that guy on my crew.
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Admit it to your supervisor, definitely. Admit it to your crew, definitely. Admit it to the coach after the game, sure. But during the game, I think the best course of action is to deal with it as a crew.
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Fine, with the caveats mentioned above.
*Just as, as an official I hate it when fanboys and announcers paint us all with the same brush, as a journalist by training and trade, I'm not in favor of officials doing the same with all writers. Neither job has cornered the market on incompetence or on sainthood.