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Originally posted by Sleeper
I think I need to be a little more clear when I ask about "consistency." By consistency, I mean that the criteria we are using to make our decisions on what fouls/violations to call and what to let slide. I don't care if one team has 12 fouls and one has 2. If that's what is happening, then that is what I call. But if I am calling hand check fouls and my partner is not, then that is not consistent and I want to avoid that situation.
I think (maybe a bad idea to be thinking) that the best idea is to set expectations before the game as to how it will be called and then adjust accordingly. Then call what I see and not worry about what my partner is calling. Is that a strategy that seems to work?
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I had a similar situation on Friday night. JUCO game, one partner in the league for several years the other's very first college game. Rookie has 3-4 travel calls in 1st half, I had one and #3 has none. At halftime (I'm the R), I ask my crew if we are on the same page with travels. Are we seeing the same plays the same ways? I wasn't pointing a finger at the rookie or at the vets, but I wanted to make wure that we saw the same thing and ruled on it the same way. Second half, the rook has 3-4 more travels and the other 2 of us had none. After the game we talked about what happened with travel calls and we all felt good about our individaul calls (or no calls). Moral of the story...I'm not sure what it is. We tried to make sure we were doing the same things, but to the average observer, I'm sure it appeared like only one of us had a clue what the travel signal was. Do what you can, but make sure you get your calls right.