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Old Tue Sep 17, 2013, 04:37pm
BillyMac BillyMac is offline
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Chutes And Ladders ...

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Originally Posted by JetMetFan View Post
As you go up the ladder some would call this a matter of game awareness or, in the case of not knowing how many fouls certain players have, a lack of it.
I've already been up the high school ladder, and I loved the view from up there. Now, at my age, it's, hopefully, going to be slow trip back down the ladder, and hopefully, I don't fall off the ladder.

I've always lived by this quote: "It pays to be nice to the people you meet on the way up, for they are the same people you meet on the way down."(Walter Winchell)

I've been nice to people on the way up. I hope that they're nice to me now that I'm on the way down.

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Originally Posted by BadNewsRef View Post
In an NCAA basketball game, you foul the star player out on that call from the video, you're getting a personal phone call from your supervisor.
I was refereeing to officiating in general, not on that specific play, but your answer still makes me glad that I'm just a high school official. We seldom get any phone calls like this, in fact, it's usually us making the phone call to our assigner, usually to give him a heads up as to why we may have tossed a coach, or a player, if any phone calls are made at all. On my level, high school varsity, we would never get a phone call about a specific foul call, even if it fouled out the best player in that state. Pressure, and accountability. That's why you college guys make the big bucks, and you deserve them.
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