[MN 3 Sport Ref]

Originally posted by Jurassic Referee

Amen to that- on anything that you call,whether it's 3 seconds,contact under the board,etc,etc. If you're consistent in your calls at both ends,nobody should ever have a complaint about the officiating.

I totally agree w/ the consistancy aspect of the game. However are we trying to say here that the amount of contact that causes a 9th grader to miss a shot and is called a foul should be a foul at the college level??? I don't see one getting many assignments after a couple of those calls. Do we call the travel in a varsity HS game when the player slides the pivot foot 6 inches before releasing the ball?? I hope so. However would you call this in a 5th grade saturday game when the result of the "slide" is a pass to an open team mate who makes his/her first layup of the season. I mentioned the ever controversial 3 second call earlier in this post where a player makes an effort to clear but does not get the last 5 inches of his/her foot out of the lane. You can call that 5-6 times in a HS game and get a lot of quizical looks from players and coaches and maybe a little chipping, however do that in a college game at least the NC2A (div 3 and JuCo) that I work and you have a coach telling you to go back and keep reffing junior high as well as an assignor that makes sure you do just that...JMO