"...poor game management...."

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
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I will grant you that there are groups of officials that do not want the handle certain situations per the rules because there are certain areas of the country where coaches exert undue influence upon officials but that is no excuse for doing the correct thing.

I have found that the officials handle the difficult situations the correct way rather that following the herd will always rise to the top because there are always people knowledgeable in the correct application of the rules and mechanics.

[/B][/QUOTE]Mark, I think that you completely missed the point that was being made. It's not a matter of handling a certain type of play strictly according to the rule book; it's a matter of officials following the lead of the rules interpreters/evaluators/assignors in their particular area. If the interpretors tell their guys to use a certain procedure, then their guys will use that procedure, if they want to keep on working. It's no different than you telling your guys in your Association to do things a certain way. You expect them to listen to you. Similarly, rules interpretors in other areas expect their officials to listen to them- not you.