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Originally Posted by Rich
I know I'm quoting myself, but I learned this lesson in football. I work college football and coaches are NOTORIOUS there for clipping plays and sending them along. They only clip the ones they don't like and there's absolutely no context from play to play.
It could be a 50 point game, but if you (deliberately or otherwise) tank a call (whether it be a block/charge in hoops or an *obvious* DPI in football) you'll not score any points. Doesn't matter if it goes against the winning or losing teams, either.
Save that mentality for the true 50/50 calls.
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Totally agree. We are in the video age. Maybe that worked 20 years ago before YouTube and Facebook and Instagram took hold our the awareness of our society. We have to be very careful of what we do as officials. And all it takes is one play to be sent on for review and we are in trouble. Just look at what happened in the ASU-UA game last Friday. Those officials were told they were wrong and that could have changed the outcome if they simply did their job.
About 8-10 years ago I worked with an official that wanted me to not call a foul on the losing team player that was about to foul out, because he believed in this "kill them with kindness" crap. I called a foul where the player that fouled him was the only one around the ball handler that was fouled. Then he wanted me to change my foul call to a player that was 10 feet away from the play. I refused and if they were taping the game (and they were) it would have shown me to be totally incompetent and not foul the right player. We have to be very careful with trying to help out the losing team even when we do not want to ruffle feathers.
Peace