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Originally posted by JRutledge
Who cares if you get the answers or not. Whether you understand the written definition is not going to help you when making calls and judgements. Test just make you look at the rulebook and force you to have a basic understanding. That is all.
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I care! In my 8 years of coaching I haven't had an official handle a correctable error situation correctly. Including one whose only response to my paraphrasing the rule for failing to award a merited FT (the book was being keep by HS kids from the other team and they didn't indicate that we were in the bonus) was "Im not going to give it to you coach". If you are not forced to look at the rule book and have a basic understanding of the rules, then you don't have a basis or standard on which to make judgements. I agree with you, that officating is more than just knowing the rule book, but please don't belittle the importance of knowing the rules. It is the proper application of the rules that make a fair contest.