D3 Player Takes Cheap Shot

[Rich]

I said it was a flagrant technical based on one viewing of the film.

In retrospect, after watching the replay, I said I was wrong -- that the ball had not completely cleared the net and it was still a live ball.

But had the ball completely checked the net, it would've been a flagrant technical and calling it an F2 would've been incorrect.

The thing I'm questioning about Jeff's posts is this -- he seemed to say that calling it a live ball foul and being incorrect is somehow better than calling it a dead ball flagrant technical and being wrong. My point is.....wrong is wrong. What's the difference?

As someone who worked enough "low level college games" over the years to tell me I 100% completely hated everything about it, let me just say that you folks that do those games are more than welcome to them.

[Raymond]

I love my low-level college games. I get paid at least 3 times as much as my HS games and the majority of those games are within a 90 minute drive for me.

[SC Official]

Originally Posted by Raymond

I love my low-level college games. I get paid at least 3 times as much as my HS games and the majority of those games are within a 90 minute drive for me.

Certainly depends a lot on where you live.

When I was working those games the closest school was an hour away, the rest were at least two. The longest trip was over five hours.

Leaving work early to work bad basketball, dress in a storage closet in the middle of BFE, and ref in front of empty crowds wasn't worth it.

[crosscountry55]

Originally Posted by Raymond

I love my low-level college games. I get paid at least 3 times as much as my HS games and the majority of those games are within a 90 minute drive for me.

Ah, the benefit of east coast campus density.

Things are not quite as cost effective in Wisconsin and Kansas. Similar pay but a lot more mileage and late night drives.

I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know. I just don’t want aspiring officials north and west of the Ohio River to get a false sense of JUCO and D3 profitability.

Then again those $55 high school games in Wisconsin make a 300 mile round trip for a D3 game in January look not so bad...


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Raymond

I love my low-level college games. I get paid at least 3 times as much as my HS games and the majority of those games are within a 90 minute drive for me.

We have some longer drives than that, but I would rather go 3 hours to be paid way more than a high school game I get paid only $70 for. And one conference I work gives travel pay too.

Peace

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Rich

The thing I'm questioning about Jeff's posts is this -- he seemed to say that calling it a live ball foul and being incorrect is somehow better than calling it a dead ball flagrant technical and being wrong. My point is.....wrong is wrong. What's the difference?

That is not exactly what I said. You put a lot of stuff into my comments.

Let me make this clear. Lower level college basketball often does not have a monitor. Lower level college does not have rules different than D1, but there is an expectation to call the exact same things as they do at that level. When you do not call things like the D1, coaches can and will go nuts, even when you do not have a monitor. So if you rule something like a Flagrant Technical and it is not "there" they might make an issue out of that. College coaches can be pettier than high school coaches. And at least for me, college coaches do not know you as well as high school coaches, you cannot just tell them anything.

Originally Posted by Rich

As someone who worked enough "low level college games" over the years to tell me I 100% completely hated everything about it, let me just say that you folks that do those games are more than welcome to them.

It is better than working many college football games and being there all day for less pay in some cases. At least I am at a game less than a couple of hours and it is warm inside. So to each his own.

Peace