2nd year official

[BillyMac]

https://youtu.be/IYzlVDlE72w

Originally Posted by Dad

If I have to watch a game for an official, especially a bad one (sophomore), I better be getting paid for it.

Originally Posted by ReffingAce

I'll pay you to not make comments like this... remember we all were at this stage in our careers at some point and hoped a veteran would devote a moment of time to us for the good of the game.

Agree.

For more than thirty years, the way our local rating system worked was that varsity officials had to show up early (before beginning of second period) for the junior varsity game, and junior varsity officials had to stay (until halftime) for the varsity game, with everybody critiquing (and rating) everybody else.

That changed last year with a new rating system based on a team of volunteer (unpaid) trained observers. What also changed was the requirement that that varsity officials had to show up early for the junior varsity game, and junior varsity officials had to stay for the varsity game. There was no longer such a requirement.

Over the past two seasons since the change, almost all of my varsity partners still showed up to observe most of the junior varsity games, offering constructive criticism. Personally, I've been at the tipoff of every junior varsity game that preceded my varsity games offering constructive criticism during junior varsity halftime, and between the junior varsity and varsity games.

On the other hand, I can count on one hand the number of junior varsity officials that stayed for any part of my varsity games this past season, most just walked out the gym doors after their games. This past year, only one stayed past halftime of my game, taking notes in a journal.

There are lots of ways to learn, including, but not limited to, observing, asking questions, and receiving constructive criticism.

[Kansas Ref]

haven't had a chance to peruse you vids yet (though it sounds like you've already begun some self-critique of some of your tendencies--i.e., how you run, how you look, etc...) but one thing to keep in mind is:
"you're never as bad a ref as they say you are; you're never as a good a ref as you think you are".