Thread: Block/charge
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Old Wed Apr 02, 2003, 12:43pm
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Originally posted by 164troyave
Why are college officials having a problem with block/charge? I saw once in the ACC playoffs and once in the NCAA games where two officials called different things and they gave each player a foul. The first thing that stood out was that each time, neither of the officials who should have been working that call as secondary made eye contact with the lead official who was working that call primary. In the NCAA game the trail official came down all the way to the foul line extended to make that call. If he is the trail why was he down so far since the lead was on the same side of the court and in position looking in? Is there any training that college officials go through that teach them to blow and not move, then look at their partner before making a call, most of all when it is not their primary area of coverage? Are these people blowing their whistles hard enough so their partners can hear them?

To give two players a foul on a block/charge I think is taking the easy way out as oppose to checking your partner who is in the primary and communicating before going to the table and someone take responsibility for the call.
If the men would adopt one rule that we have in womens, I wish it would be that the official who's primary the call was in takes it. Then it avoids calling two fouls on one play.
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