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Old Mon May 16, 2016, 01:50pm
JRutledge JRutledge is offline
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Originally Posted by Dad View Post
I'm not really sure what you meant by your bold point.

Rules aside, the game is inherently different between men/women and younger/older leagues. Walking onto 5A varsity game thinking you're going to treat it like a middle school game is, well..., good luck! We probably have different definitions of calling a game differently, but I'm adamant on my point that officials moving up don't adapt with the game they are officiating(At least not the ones that move up successfully).
High school officials who never have interactions with higher level seem to think that there is some drastic instruction or philosophy that happens at the higher levels. There is not.

And I call the game exactly the same based on contact and whether a foul is to be called or not. I do not do anything different. The difference is that a kid in middle school might not handle contact the same as someone in college. But then again a kid in college is not as clumsy either. So what is considered incidental might vary, but that is more about the talent, not the level.

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