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Old Tue Oct 15, 2002, 01:09pm
zebraman zebraman is offline
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Presense?

Note: That was a quote of your original spelling by the way. :-)

Interesting. When I suggested this before, I was told how important all the other things were much more important than
"Presence."


Based on my experiences, I still very much believe that rules and mechanics are more important in my partner than presence and I also believe that a beginning ref needs to concentrate on rules and mechanics before working on more advanced stuff.

Well considering the way he officiated the game I witnessed, it seemed like his "attention to detail" was lacking big time.

Well then he is non-professional in many ways and the only question is why an assignor gave him the game in the first place.

So Z you are really proving my point in this discussion that we have had for months (I am not trying to go there again, just making an observation). So the guy that has the ponytail and the guy that wears jeans, might know the rules, past many tests or be competent in many ways in officiating, but does not prove it by the way they look. Or better yet, gives a negative impression of how they take officiating. And that impression can affect the way coaches, players and even fans view us and the job we do.

First of all, you are going there again. If you are going to use one guy who wears jeans in his game to prove your point, have at it. I'll use the rest of the guys who dress correctly and have great rule knowledge as my "test subjects."

Now my only point about the ponytail is that I am sure there is someone over the country that has worn a ponytail for a varsity and maybe even a small college game.


Perhaps somewhere someone refs a game wearing nothing but a thong and a tatoo of Ed Rush on their left butt cheek. It's still unprofessional by the standards of any assignor you or I know right?

Z
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