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Interesting discussion- I attended a D1 game worked by a friend of mine who has been working with younger (less experienced) HS officials when the same situation occurred. He was T and L had an OOB call. T didn't hit the whistle at all, just quickly ran to L to say he had 100% knowledge that ball should go the other way. L nodded his head, T went back to his position and L stayed with his call.
What my friend has been preaching to us was to 1- get the call right 2- in this situation, don't give the whistle a workout, just come in to your partner and tell him/her you have 100% knowledge that the call should go the other way and back off and let partner change his mind or not and 3- we are not coming in to partner unless you are 100% sure.
This leads to #4- if partner chooses to stay with his call, well, then, that's all you can do and your *** is covered if your cadet supervisor, HS assignor, college assignor or NCAA tourney observer is watching intently.... I wonder what points are given to the official who comes in with definite knowledge and is refused and the play was wrong... does he advance over the the partner who stays with his call? (I'm sure that's not the only criteria, but it might have a lot to say about the overall performance evaluation, no?)
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