Forgive me...
I either put too much thought into my posts...or not enough. No one seems to "get" what I'm saying. I think I'll just stick to replying to old topics rather than trying to start new ones!
Maybe a better explanation would be that even though the R AND the U('s) are ONE team, they comprise EQUAL responsibilities but philosophically different roles. No, no one is better than the other...and YES, they both will make decisions equally.
I'll leave with an example: One game last season, I had one of those big ego guys that are sometimes discussed on here...and he was a young guy! During our pre-game, he said that he wasn't going to take any sh#$ tonight and that he didn't want me to take any either. Well, in the 3rd quarter, he ended up QUICKLY tossing the visiting coach. I was getting ready to administer the FT's when I still noticed the coach standing on the sideline. I motioned to my partner, who was the R, to conference with me. I told him that if he tossed the coach, he needed to tell him to leave the confines of the floor. He asked me to do it. I said NO, because #1, you tossed him, and #2, your the R. That being said, if I tossed him as the U, I would have had no problem telling him to leave. And, there is NO rule saying that the R has to either. But, if I were the R that night, I may have taken control of the shaky situation, hustled over to the coach and told him he had to leave. If the coach would have copped an attitude and questioned why my partner hadn't asked him to leave, I would have said that I was the R and that I just wanted to keep the game moving by being the one to ask him to leave. That night as U, I felt like my partner should have asked the coach to leave (maybe I just wanted to return the favor for his pre-game attitude...but it was a JV game and he needed to learn).
Mick? "There is much more to do, in most games as the umpire." What does that mean? The referee is the only one with real pregame duties.
We must do it differently here in Indiana.
[Edited by Indy_Ref on Dec 19th, 2000 at 04:00 PM]
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