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Originally Posted by jpgc99
my point was not to intentionally pass on a travel deemed "marginal." If I see a travel, I'm calling it. But if I am not certain, I'm not calling it. There are no percentages. In my judgment, it is either a travel or it is legal. That's as simple as it is during the game.
When I grade my film, it is a missed call either way. But it is easier to explain a missed travel than calling something that isnt there. This also makes it easier to improve... Perhaps my positioning was poor or I had a bad angle. I can work on these things to get better at picking travels up.
But if I am calling travels that aren't there, I'm guessing and making stuff up. Credibility goes down quickly when you guess.
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I guess we can use whatever language we like but we know over the course of the game there are going to be travels we miss (watching contact, screened out, etc). There are also going to be (by letter of the rule) a number of plays that are travels but at game speed we just aren't sure enough/ too close to call. When we go back to the video we can see it or even in some cases have to slow it down enough to see it, but at game time we can't be/weren't certain enough.
I guess my feeling is this. If when you look at tape you see a number that were missed in real time because of real time there has to be an adjustment made. Now that could be a number of things:
A) Maybe the official in question just needs to get better at anticipating or looking for cues. Just make note of what they see and refine their craft.
B) Maybe the adjustment is to the rules. To eliminate guess work or plays that are difficult to the naked eye at game speed.
C) The adjustment might be to our expectation of clear and unclear. That if we are missing a volume a unsure travels, maybe officials need to be less sure and live with getting one wrong.
Lots of ways to skin a cat. I will just go on record as saying almost any high school game down to grass roots I watch from a fans perspective (NCAA and NBA are a little different animals in that they have mandates/ directives careers etc) officials are passing/ not seeing/ unsure/ mariginalizing - use whatever language you want - Travels on the take off. Unless there is a blatantly clear extra step in my experience watching games, officials will not or are at best very hesitant to make calls when the ball is still in contact with the hand when the back foot comes up to start a dribble.
I'm not saying for game management sake or what they can clearly see that this is wrong. Just that in an age where everything can be taken back and rewatched. If something illegal by rule is happening and not being called properly that is problematic and adjustments need to be made.
If you owned a buisness and you had a policy that was being ignored or couldn't be complied with you would either change the policy, change directives leading to its enforcement, or make sure it was being followed. You wouldn't maintain a policy that existed only as a written statement somewhere.