What's a foul these days?

[tomegun]

I'm sort of stuck on officials encouraging contact. How do we do that? Everyone has made good posts to describe how the current game is played. It is just so much different. Could anyone imagine LeBron James playing back in the 60s? He would totally dominate and the kid just turned 20. It wasn't even fair for him to play in HS the year before last! What about Shaq playing in the 50s? If we called all contact fouls then a HS game would probably take about 2.5 hours to do.

Starman, I don't think it is right for you to come on this board, criticize officials and then get sensitive when someone doesn't answer your questions the way you want. We take so much crap during a game and at other times it is pathetic. Can we have one public forum where we can say something back? You mentioned all this other crap but you never mentioned the fact that officials get dumped on more than ever. We were not born officials, we are men and women just like you and sometimes we get sick and tired of hearing dumb commments like yours. Yes, your comments were dumb because if you really do have one year officiating, have read the book and had some type of training you wouldn't ask that crap.