Toughest game to officiate in quite some time

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Mike, I feel your pain.

This year at the MDP camp I went to, 2 out of the 4 games I did were like that. They lasted at least 2 hours each, and were horrible to officiate. I was stressing out, because I thought I did a horrible job, and with evaluators watching it didn't help.

After one of the games, the worst one in my opinion, the evaluator said something that really shocked me. Now there had to be at least 60 fouls in the game, really scrappy, 7 people fouled out. After the game, we were watching the tape and the evaluator said that we should've called more. We should've called every little touch. I'm still not sure exactly how that would've worked out, but man, does having a game like that really put strain on the old mind. It made me doubt myself as an official which is something I really shouldn't do.

Well anyways, long story short, you're not alone out there.