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Originally posted by LarryS
Every game should be view as the most important game you will ever call.
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Well, I guess I understand the sentiment, but I don't agree with it. I agree that you should view the game as your job and do the best job that you can in that game. View it as the most important game to the
kids at that moment. They deserve your undivided attention and your best effort. If you don't feel like being there, then you should be somewhere else and let another official handle the game.
But it's just silly to say that you should view it as the most important game you'll
ever do. If I work a JV girls game, I've
already worked much bigger, more important games. So it can't possibly be the most important game of my career. And if I view that JV girls' game as the biggest game that I will have from this moment on, then I may as well hang 'em up.
Why? Because I work hard in each game so that I'm ready for that first game
at the next level. I work my butt off in my JV games so that I'm sharp for my Varsity games. I work my butt off in my HS Varsity games, so that I'm sharp when I try to impress the observers at camp. I work my butt off at camp so that I'm ready for my first college game of the season. I work my butt off in my college games to improve myself for the
chance to crack D1. So even when I am doing a varsity college D2 game, I do not view it as the most important game I'll ever do.
This doesn't apply to everyone, I realize. Not everyone has D1, or even college, as a goal. I'm just saying that you can't say as a blanket statement that the game you're working should be the most important ever. It's a nice sentiment, but it's just not realistic for a whole lot of people.
Chuck