Protect the *Star Player ???

[totalnewbie]

(1) Do your association, camp instructors, district coordinators, etc. teach you to protect the star players?

(2) Do they teach you to try to keep the star players in the game (from fouling out)?

(3) Do they teach you to know when any teams key players have four fouls and make sure your parnters are aware of it too?

(4) Do any of you have any practical philosophy concerning this you would be interested in sharing with this board?

1. For goodness sake, no.
2. Heck no.
3. No, but we are cognizant of whether or not a player has 4 fouls. On the 5th foul, that player is disqualified and there are very particular steps that have to be taken in a DQ situation. For that reason, it is good to know when a DQ might come up. But it isnt relevant to "star" status. I agree with the prior post that I dont want my foul that is a DQ on a player to be a call I wish I had back, but that pertains to any player's 5th, not just to alleged "star" players.
4. See above.

"Protect the star" is just not something that is taught, or not that I have ever heard. Now I'm not working BV games, but they dont have special meetings I dont attend and I have sat in on many of their pregames and never once heard a varsity crew say "make sure you dont foul out star player" or anything even remotely close to that. The only thing I have heard officials say is "see what you call and call what you see."

Frankly, to the extent I personally watch score or time or fouls it is situational and to anticipate possible future plays or situations (possible upcoming end of game timeouts after a score, possible intentional fouls, score getting lopsided so game might get chippy, knowing we are at 6 fouls so the next is 1 and 1, etc).

But I'm just a newbie, so what do I know

Hope that helps.

Clark