Hello,
I had something interesting happen tonight in Texas. I was calling a 4a boys game and a player from team a goes down the lane out of control and commits an apparent player control foul. I come up with the charge mechanic, and signal to the table accordingly. My co-official comes up and tells me that the player wasn't in control of the ball at the time of contact, so the foul wouldn't be player control, but just a common push foul. I say okay, and change my reporting procedure and go to the other end to shoot free throws. My third official comes up to us and asks us what we are doing, and we tell him that my lead official, woody, informed me that the ball was gone at the point of contact. I lost the ball in my attempt to pick up the defense so the help was fine with me. Our third official, carl protested vehomently with us, but we shot the one-and-one anyways. At halftime, he tore into us about it saying that we can't change the call after the initial presentation, but I told him it was more important that we got it right, and I didn't care if I had to change it. Carl was still upset and said "don't even come to me with that s--t because I ain't changing it" I know the error was mine in the initial mechanical presentation, and I felt it would be prideful on my part to ignore the fact of the matter that we had a common foul instead of a charge. I also know that woody, who has 20+ years experience, wouldn't come to me unless he was absolutely sure. Feedback??? Thanks
Jeremy Hohn
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Wed Feb 14, 2001, 02:31am
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