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Originally Posted by APG
Again I ask, when was the last time, in a basketball game with actual trained officials, you saw one official go to the other and try and talk him out of a foul based solely on the amount of contact?
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Funny you should bring that up. I was at a camp last year where an NFL white hat was a guest speaker. Years ago he officiated basketball but today only does football. He said, rhetorically, "You know, in football we pick up flags all of the time. In basketball you'll sometimes come together on an out-of-bounds call, but why don't you ever come together on fouls?" I have to admit, football seems to be way ahead of us on the issue of information sharing.
Granted our culture isn't going to change overnight, and in football, where the NFL officials to players ratio is 9:22 (ours is 6.6:22 in a three-man crew), more than one set of eyes is typically on the same matchup. But still, our culture is an obstinate one, isn't it?