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Originally Posted by btaylor64
To this day I have never made a college game look bad or made my partners look bad.
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Since you admittedly don't know the NCAA rules, you likely have and just aren't aware of it.
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Originally Posted by btaylor64
Who is "us"? cause if you are talking about refs as a whole, I'm pretty sure I fit the mold and the makeup of a referee. I believe I have and show respect for all of "us" who wear the uniform.
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Not if you don't bother to study the rules ahead of time and take the court unprepared to correctly handle situations that may arise.
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Originally Posted by btaylor64
I answered and was, in fact, unaware of the rule for college. Even if I had read the rule for college, I still wouldn't have believed that I couldn't reset the clock cause the word "recognizing" means that I recognize that there is a 2 second(or whatever) differential and that the 35 seconds has expired.
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Exactly my point. You don't even know the basics of an NCAA shot clock violation, yet you work these games and think that you are doing a good job. Every time that you incorrectly reset the clock because you somehow got the notion that you can, you screw one of the teams and embarrass every conscientious person who dons the stripes. Simply put, you need to learn the rules, and furthermore you need to learn the importance of actually applying them in a contest. That's what a real referee does.
PS Your convoluted definition of "recognizing" is utterly laughable. You are dead wrong on this point.
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Originally Posted by btaylor64
I have not engaged anyone in a long time who has attempted to berate me on this forum, but for you to say I make officials everywhere look bad, that is pure defamation and disrespectful.
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I haven't written anything that is untrue. By your own admission, in this specific case and several other in the past, you don't know certain rules and are at a loss as to how to handle some basic situations in an NCAA game.
You are the one who is being disrespectful. Each time that you take the court at this level without proper preparation you are disrespecting the two teams, their coaches, their supporters, your partners, and the avocation of officiating. You are saying that they aren't important enough for you to bother to get it right for them. All of their practice time and hours of video study are belittled by your lack of preparation.
What makes you think that it is okay for you to behave in this manner? Hopefully, this is a sin of youth which you will outgrow.
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Originally Posted by btaylor64
I take your accusation very seriously. I do this for a living and up to this point in my life, which has not been a long one, it has been my life's work. I respect the people who do it... at all levels and I respect the game and have the utmost love for it. There is not a day that goes by that I wouldn't love to talk basketball and you have virtually just spit at my feet and disrespected me and the job we all love and enjoy to do sooo much.
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If you actually do take officiating seriously, then you sure don't show it. You need to change your ways and put in the required study time to be able to properly perform you duties. You can't always count on someone else who does possess the proper knowledge to be there and to handle these things for you. When you take that step I'll stop chastising you.