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Originally posted by Peter Devana
Without new officials the sport would be lost. I have been an active official, educator and clinition since the early 60's.The experienced guys have to WANT to work with the novices. I f they don't, they shouldn't be assigned to those games. When so assigned I feel you have to trust each other-call your own areas and learn to take the heat for your own calls and no-calls. Only in truly obvious situations should either official make a call in his partner's area . That should happen rarely. When it does , you should communicate the reason clearly to your partner and by doing so to everyone else. I saw this happen just the other day between two very experienced officials. One called double dribble ,in the grey area as the dribbler was passing from the trail's area to the lead's. The official who did not make the call immediately gave a double tweet of his whistle -rushed over to his partner and with an obvious deflection signal combined with the verbalization-"the defence deflected the ball" Changed the call and gave the ball back to the offence.GREAT officiating and PERFECT teamwork. Everyone in the place realized these guys were a good team!! Remember it can never be confrontational.
YIBB
PISTOL
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So Pistol, now that you might be singing a different tune
I'm gonna ask you how is it younger officials would regret
taking the advice I gave in this thread? Go back & read
what I said, pay close attention to the parts where I say
before reversing the leads bad call you should confer
with him. How is doing it "my way" bad advice, and
doing it "your way" "GREAT officiating and PERFECT
teamwork"? You also touch on the issue of trusting our
partners, but you might find that I did bring that up
as potentially the reason why the lead took that call away
from the less experienced trail. So, I'll say it again:
the lead made the wrong over & back call because he did not
trust his partner. The only way to stop these guys from
over-reaching is to take the call back from him. The
hardest thing for new officials (and I'll admit I am
a new official compared to someone doing it since the early
'60s) to gain is self confidence under presssure. If you
can't correct your own partner *in this case* how can you
deal with coaches? Anyway I think we've about beat this
thing to death by now.