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Originally posted by Bart Tyson
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One POE that I have read in the NCAA Officiating Bulletins is that an official should never tell a coach or player that he did not call something because it was not his call. From that point of view, the C saw a travel and chose not to ignore it: he did what his boss told him to do. Personally, I have no problem with the call, bottom line is they got it right.
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I don't think this discussion is about what we say to a coach. I do believe, if you were to ask a supervisor; "if my partner misses a obvious travel 6' in front of him and I am 40' to 50' away, do you want me to wait 5 second, after the ball has been passed, blow my whistle, go to my partner and give him info so as to call a travel"? Hummmm I wonder what most supervisors would say. Actually, I don't wonder, I'm confident My supervisors would not reconmend this action. [/B]
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For a travel that would be a judegment call (when was the ball controlled/released relative to the foot movement, etc.) I would agree with you. However, in this case, and ones like it, where everyone (minus one) in the gym saw a blantant, obvious, and unmitigated travel, it needs to be called.
The C was more like 35 ft from the play (not all that different than the T often is in a two man game) while the T was probably about 10 feet.
Plus, the areas are called "primary areas", not "exclusive areas." If any ref knows of an obvious violation and does not call it, they've not done their job. There's a quote that I've heard from an exchange between an NBA coach and official where a similar thing happened and the ref said "It's not my call" to which the coach responded with "Well, who's call is it? The popcorn guy?"
We're a team out there, not three/two individuals.