Pulled Foot - A first

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally posted by WindyCityBlue
Wow, you must have missed the NCAA tourney.

In the first round Texas Tech game, the ball was whistled out and awarded incorrectly. The crowd went crazy and one of the other officials hustled in and must have convinced him that it was deflected - the correct call. Knight looked perplexed but kept his cool since everyone there, except for the guy making the initial call, knew it was the right thing to do. If there is one coach that will jump all over a guy for usurping his authority, it's the General.

Wow, you missed the point, WCB. DG was alluding to basketball officials over ruling each other. Well, that don't happen. Ever!

The official above changed his OWN call after listening to the information that was offered to him by another official. That happens all the time. He was NOT over ruled by another official. You can NEVER over rule another official in basketball- plain and simple. There's a very simple theory behind the explicit rule that I detailed in my first post. The basketball rulesmakers don't want their officials to try and assert their OWN judgement over another official's judgement.