The Name Game (Shirley Ellis, 1964) ...

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

Seriously Billy, why? As in why are you asking this question? Is this helping newer officials who are looking for real world applications of the rules? To me, all you're doing is confusing them with these questions that nobody asks but you.

An award winning middle school science teacher for thirty-plus years knows how to ask pointed questions to educate, and to elicit followup questions to make a point.

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Stupid question, but sometimes extremes can clear things up that are otherwise muddled.

[justacoach]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

An award winning middle school science teacher for thirty-plus years knows how to ask pointed questions to educate, and to illicit followup questions to make a point.

sb elicit!

But a piss poor example of an English teacher

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by justacoach

But a piss poor example of an English teacher.

That's on me. I'd like to blame spell check, but I'd be lying.

[Eastshire]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Eastshire: You've seen this before, with multiple colleagues? So this really isn't an exercise in counting angels on the head of a pin?

Certainly more than one. It is very common among scorers. They always want to strike non-present players. I would say that in about a third of my games I tell a scorer it's not necessary to scratch out a non-present player. I do work exclusively sub-varsity, so perhaps that's a factor.

The referees who want to scratch players tend to be old-timers or older new referees with the "that's how it was done when I played" mind set.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Eastshire

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The referees who want to scratch players tend to be old-timers or older new referees with the "that's how it was done when I played" mind set.

They are usually also guys who would better served if they spent more time on positioning and play-calling.