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Originally Posted by Kelvin green
If you had a controversial play in a local association and one of us made a wrong rule interp that changed the complexion of the game do we need to be hung out? if there was an issue we need to acknowledge it.
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Wrong rules interps and missed judgment calls are two completely different and disparate animals imo, and should be treated as such if you have to answer complaints about either.
I agree fully that any legitimate complaints that come into a local association should always be truthfully answered. I think that anyone responding to complaints on either a wrong rules interp or a missed judgment call should be right up-front. However the responses should be different. On a missed interp, you tell somebody that, yes, the official kicked the rule, has been told about it and it shouldn't happen again. On a missed judgment call, that's exactly what you should tell the complainant. You tell them that it appears that the official
may have missed the call, but it was a judgment call...and as all officials are human, we will miss a judgment call now and then.
We should get the rules interps correctly; since we're human, we will miss the occasional judgment call though. And imo, we definitely shouldn't hang officials out to dry for a missed judgment call.
JMHO.