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Originally posted by Rich Fronheiser
If having to guess on one call in an entire season makes me a "girl's official" in Rut's mind, so be it. In that instance I think it was the proper thing to do as the ends certainly implied the means. I don't have the luxury of working 3-whistle and I work as hard as I can to be in the best position I can.
Rich
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Your example did not even fit the play that happen in the Duke/North Carolina game. These situations were not even close to the same. And yes to me (not that it means anything) the play you gave an example for was rather shallow to explain your point. And yes to me, the play you gave sounded like a girl's foul explaination. Because if you call something just because they fell down in a boy's game or Men's college game, the coaches and evaluators are going to have you for lunch. And I have done Men's and Women's college basketball games in Wisconsin, they expect different things from those sides of the ball. And on the boy's or Men's side of the ball, they do a whole lot of flopping, acting like they got hit or contacted when basically nothing happen. And if you are not ready for that, they will have you calling all kinds of stuff. So you better by sure you saw some contact, rather than calling something that looked like contact. Because in many loose ball situations, players run into each other and sometimes get hurt, and no one fouled anyone. And in the original situation, it was not obvious that he was hit and he definitely was not hit on purpose. If the NC player would have kept standing, this would have never been an issue. But understand this is my opinion. I am sure others like yourself will disagree. Officiating is an art, not always an exact science. Judgement plays a huge part in what they do. If either of us were on the game, we would have to answer individuals why or why not we made a call.
Peace