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Originally Posted by Rich
I'm just saying that a lot of us don't fit under that umbrella. Your sloppy use of "HS guys" as a blanket term doesn't fit for all of us.
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Then get mad at those as well that make the claim that what is ignored on purpose at the other levels. Again there are people that make many statements as if HS is pure and what happens at high school would never happen at the college or God Forbid the NBA level. I know guys that will not call the most simple stuff when it is front of them because they either do not know it happen or they are indifferent to making that call.
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Originally Posted by Rich
2 years ago I worked HS state -- that summer I went to 2 weekend camps as an attendee and was a clinician at a few others -- none of these were in an effort to "get hired" to work college games. Last summer I did the same thing.
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OK, I have worked high school for 20 years and often deal with high school officials as a clinician. Also many of the officials I work with in high school have college experience as well. I work for a supervisor that assigns high school (some of the most assignments in the state now) and college. Many of his college guys other than the D1 guys works both for him.
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I have no real need to do this after so many years of officiating -- I get all the games I want -- but when I think I can't learn anything new, it's time to quit. And I learned from some of the best officials in the country (including a B1G / NCAA tournament official) some concepts of working 3-person that I've taken back to my local association.
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In my 20 years of officiating 3 sports, I have learned that mostly what is done comes from all levels and concepts of officiating comes from all levels. I spoke with an NBA officials that came to our association to speak this past fall, almost all their mechanics are the same things we do. Yes, some differences in what you actually cover, but how you call the game or when you call the game outside of your area is basically the same. What is a crew saving call is seen the same. The difference is that those at the NBA and college levels they get a lot of tape to evaluate those things. I rarely get a good high school tape of any of my high school games. I try and many are online, but we rarely get to review tape of our games. It is getting much better than it used to be, but still far behind the other levels for sure.
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Do people exist like the ones you describe? Yes. Some are on this forum. So what?
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Even in the OP I qualified that one of the plays was a college rule being applied. That did not stop people from making comments that seem odd. But I digress.
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As far as baseball goes, it's my least favorite of my 3 sports these days. But once March rolls around, I've had enough basketball for a while. If I get rid of baseball (and I might in a few years), what will take its place is "nothing."
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My comment about baseball was strictly a joke in the context of this thread and your comments. I personally do not care what someone does in their spare time. I worked baseball for 15 years and enjoyed it for the most part. But what is funny is that baseball umpires from other levels love to ridicule those that do not follow all the concepts that comes from the Majors when what might apply in HS is not appropriate to be used in the first place. I was always having conversations with guys in baseball about why someone did not do something because some big fat guy in the Majors does something with more umpires and better players.
I have left baseball and have not missed it one bit. It was also my least favorite to officiate and the only reason I was even thinking about coming back is to work another State Final and that was not enough of a reason for me. I would rather work summer basketball.
Peace