North Carolina St. @ Virginia (Video) 3 Plays to discuss

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Rich

Christ, a guy works a few college games and he thinks all us HS-only people are crap. Stop lumping all of us under some big, inferior umbrella. Some of us have never had a desire to drive 4+ hours to make $150 - $175 working a D3 game -- that doesn't make us bad officials who don't know how to call traveling.

I have worked college for over 10 years. I also do not have to travel 4 hours to most college games. I do not know that I have ever traveled for a college basketball game that was 4 hours away. Usually about a hour at most and it is because there is traffic to attend the game. This Saturday I will work a game about 20 minutes from my house and if I lived in the same place I did a couple of years ago, I would have 10 minutes at most to get to this particular site. And if I worked D3 ball game alone, there are several within 30 minutes from where I live. But since you brought it up.......

Also, what I am usually talking about is that those that mostly work high school love to tell everyone what is the attitudes of those that work college. And usually the attitude is that certain things are ignored on purpose that are never ignored at the high school level like traveling. College officials usually subject themselves to more camps and more training where as many "high school guys" do the absolute bare minimum to get better if they are not required to attend something. I happen to live in a state that requires camps as a norm for a period of time, but many official only care about what is going to get them a game, not what they need to do to get better.

Originally Posted by Rich

Onto another subject:

As far as play 3 is concerned, we're under 2 seconds. Damned right I'm looking there. As soon as it's obvious that he's going to be a jump shooter, we need to know where the feet are and, more importantly, we simply can't miss a foul on the jump shooter cause "I'm watching my area." Let's face it -- at the D1 level, the monitor will get the feet -- it's the foul on the jump shooter the crew really can't miss.

Since you mentioned it, usually it is high school officials that use these old and antiquated ideas about things like who calls something or who should make a call. Because if you go to camps where mostly the officials are responsible for officials of different levels, those individuals are not stuck into the, "That is not my area" thinking. That is why IMO just in these plays we have had people talking about where and who called something other than why they called it or got it right.

Originally Posted by Rich

(There's an analogous concept in baseball -- a ball that threatens a foul pole -- ALL umpires are going to look at it. What's more important, watching a meaningless touch of a base or that ball that's may or may have not hooked the pole -- everyone needs to have an opinion.)

Christ man, no one cares about a sport that is outside and has no time associated with that. I do not want to go leave my house not knowing if I am going to play a game. This is an indoor sport we are talking about, not an outdoor one. No one cares about that sport anyway.

Peace