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Originally posted by NCAAcoach
if you would have read my comments at the beginning...i said a few multiple officials can do well in soccer...if you are one of them...great...but having been paired with many "other" sport officials...IMO most do not...and are you saying fine tuning one's skills/mechanics year round means they are inferior some way in some aspect of the game???...that statement is nonsense...the best soccer officials are year round/dedicated to their sport...do they make mistakes...of course, its human nature...and to say that the officials that are not noticed is a statement by a coach who's team fouls alot is a bad perception...soccer is a 90-minute contact sport that has bodily contact(borderline foul-play from the start to finish) and only the soccer official who FULLY understands the nature of the game in its entirety can be an effective/efficient match referee...again this is not flaming the multiple official who can handle their chosen sports...it is based on my experiences with sub-par officials who only do it for the money...IMO they would be better officiating the other football.
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I have to jump back into this discussion.
Coach, if you take the time to read my profile you will see that the vast majority of my officiating experience is in basketball. One could quite correctly make the statement that basketball is the sport that I treat seriously as an official and that I officiate baseball, softball, and soccer for fun. As well as being a rules intepreter and instructional chairman in basketball, I sit on four national committees of IAABO.
Yes, I do take basketball officiating seriously. BUT, I also take officiating baseball, softball, and soccer officiating seriously. I study the rules and mechanics manual for those sports and attend rules interpretations meetings also. When I step on the diamond or pitch, I conduct myself in a professional manner appropriate to the sport I am officiating. I take pride in doing the game correctly. I may officiate baseketball at the women's college level and officiate in AAU and YBOA national baseketball tournament and only officiate baseball, softball, and soccer at the high school level, but I still give those other three sports the same professional attention both on and off the field that I do to baseketball.
I will be the first to tell you that basketball is the sport in which I consider myself the officiating "expert", but I also pride myself on being a competent official in those other sports.
Coach, I will be the first to agree with you that there are far to many incompetent officials in basketball, baseball, softball, and soccer, because these officials really do not care about doing a good job. But you holier than thou attitude about soccer is just flat out wrong.
We are sports officials first, and we all should remember that.
MTD, Sr.