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Originally posted by Tim C
I will disagree until my death . . .
When I evaluate (and my partners who evaluate) would ding an official if he called both fouls on the double foul.
I will leave with this thought . . . things DO NOT happen at the same time . . . something always happens first.
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Respectfully, you are saying two different things here. Your phrase "would ding an official if he called both fouls on the double foul" implies that there WAS a double foul. I'd ding you if you ignored one and called one even though YOU JUDGED IT TO BE A DOUBLE FOUL.
However, I don't disagree with your phrase "something always happens first". If you judge a foul to have happened, making the ball dead, and subsequent action that would be a foul if the ball were live but not warranting a technical, then I have no problem with you calling one foul.
I'm saying don't ARBITRARILY (sp?) hit the defense on this trip and the next one, then the offense on the next two trips because that's what comes next in your "clean it up" sequence. If you see one first, call one. If you see them at the same time, call both.
An interesting aside, we varsity coaches get to rate the officials each year, 1 to 10. I gave only one guy a 10 (I was liberal with the 8s and 9s) and it was the only guy who called a double foul last season that I can recall. It was a physical game and his double foul call got the attention of both coaches that it wasn't going to be tolerated. We got the word to our players (that hadn't already figured it out) and the game was much cleaner. That game was better for the double. If it wasn't a double, the girl who believed she got wronged might've been looking to even the score at the other end.