How involved should you become

[blindzebra]

The many times at camps where we are told by the big time
officials(college and NBA)that if you have a close one,dual touch it goes to the team down 20,or the visiting
team.

Other so called fundamentals,that I've heard:

If there is contact on the sideline and the ball goes out it goes to the team that received the contact,but no need to call a foul.

Up fake then contact is always a shooting foul.

Offensive player that turns with the ball and is surprised by the defender,call the travel before a PC foul.

Officials that call a lot of travels and 3 second calls
are not very good officials.

Any official that says that they don't adjust how they call the game from level to level(5th graders vs varsity),
skill level of players in the game,importance of game,history of the game(big rivalry),closeness of game, flow of game,etc...is not being very truthful.

Any in all of those things do factor into our decision making,even if you are calling each play on it's own merit,
no call exists in a vacuum.It is part of the game as a whole and like it or not everything you have gathered during that game will go into that call in the 4th quarter
of that 40 point blow out.