Charging

[Starman311]

Dan, thanks for your reply. I appreciate your honesty. However, I do have a couple of issues with your answers. I don't understand why an official can or should ignore a call or make a different call to "make up for call" previously made. Tell where in the rule book it advocates this type of officating policy. I agree with you that referees are human, and that mistakes result. But that doesn't mean that he/she should even it up by making another bad call.

Also, you mention that the "flow of the game begs for a no-call". Again, this is strange philosophy to me. Since when is it the referee's job to decide when a foul should be called and when not to even though it is the same foul. Or when palming the ball should be called even though the same violation occurs during two different points in a game. This type of "omnipotence" then becomes subjective ruling rather than attempting to stay objective as much as possible.

I realize that subjective judgement is needed to interpret many different calls. However, there should be some common base or standardized training that is provided re: questionable or judgemental situations that will attempt to make everyone evaluate these situations similarly.