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Originally posted by ranjo
I enjoy officiating a "well played" boys or girls game. I do find I call them differently. Doing a girls game I call a closer more fundamental game (which seems to be what they expect.) Refereeing a boys game, the expectation is to let a little more incedental contact go and have more flow in the game.
In general, girls and their coaches seem to want all contact called and are not as concerned about game flow.
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These kinds of observations are very interesting to me and just what I want the thread to be concentrated on.
Your observation about calling closely, and game flow, doesn't match with my experience. My biggest varsity game this season had a team that ended up second in the state, and a team in their league who could very easily have upended them. My evaluator was critical that we called it too tight. He thought we should have let a lot more go. They seemed to want to allow any mugging that didn't actually put them on the floor, and my evaluator said we should have called it that way.
I wonder if it's a regional thing. Around here, I think girls get away with a lot more than boys.
Thu Mar 31, 2005, 05:57pm
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