[JRutledge]

I just got through working as a clinician at a Basketball Camp where AAU was being played with mostly 16 year olds that can play above the rim and are the "next" thing in the game all weekend long including this morning. There is no comparison to working a basketball game to any other sport I work. So many decisions to make and there is no mechanism to really make the calls for you. You have to tell everyone most of the time that you have a call to make unlike baseball for example. And to make calls consistently you have to get in position and not have the position fixed for you. I also think Football is harder than baseball as well when most of what we have to do is make calls while moving and even when the ball is completely dead, we still have a lot of work to do. I know some want to say that calling a pitch in baseball is the hardest thing in sports, but with all due respect anyone can be trained to stand there and make a call. I have a really hard time telling a newer or inexperienced basketball and football officials to get in position and then tell them how to make a call.

Peace