Any advice?

[kschau]

I wanted to get some feedback on a game that my partner and I did the other night. This is my first full year with my partner and we are fairly new to officiating. At any rate, we feel we are doing a very good job; enough so that our assignor has evauluated us and half our schedule this year is for Varsity games. This is unprecedented for young officials in my area. We know we have a long way to go to be top rate officials but still feel we are in the upper ranks. (confident not cocky)

My comment is that the season has gone along so far very smoothly until Friday night. We officiated two very small schools. IT WAS A MESS! The athletic talent was lacking and the play was very sloppy. It was obvious that defense was a foreign word. The visiting team was in the double bonus to start the 2nd quarter, and the home team had it shortly thereafter. I compared the game to doing a sloppy junior high game with twice the pace.

The advice I want is what do you do after the game when you feel you did a less than adequate job, even though we were confident that we did? We still didn't feel real good. Typically after other games, we feel confident that we called a good game...we discuss any mistakes and go from there. We almost felt like the play of the teams dictated how we called the game (does that make sense?)

Any advice?