Tracking fouls?

[JRutledge]

I am just saying you should not be a maverick. No one else is making those calls, why should you. Those rules are in the rulebook for a reason. But I would not spend my time calling them. Call the first foul. If you start calling multiple and false double fouls all the time, eventually people will forget about the other good things you have done and focus on this rule that no one has seen called.

Division 1 Official Marvin Sykes (lives in Chicago) has told me and others several times, "Officiating is 5% book, 95% common sense." In my opinion it is not good common sense to make calls that you have to look deep into the rulebook to find. Call the obvious and what everyone can easily understand. That does not mean there are no exceptions, just a philosophy at least I follow.

Peace