Exhumed Question from the Dead File

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally posted by ChuckElias

Yes, it obvious does matter. Say my partner calls a travel on a borderline jumpstop. I'm not going to run in and tell my partner, "Hey, that wasn't really a travel". But if he says, "Travel! 2 shots!", you better believe I'm going to go to him and set him straight. There is a HUGE difference between the call and the enforcement.

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Here's where we're having our failure to communicate.

True. I agree completely with what you've said and what you're doing.

But.... you still haven't extrapolated it far enough. Now whatinthehell do you do when you've just set him straight and he still says "Chuck, you're wrong. It's my call and I'm giving him 2 shots"? Or in the example that I used before, he says "Chuck you're wrong. I'm not giving 2 shots for a delay-of-game T. I'm giving them an official warning instead". What do you do when the calling official is absolutely adamant that he was right and also absolutely adamant that he ain't gonna change his call? Are you just gonna sit there trading "you're right- you're wrong"s with him until the sun cools and the earth collapses in on itself? Somewhere along the line you just gotta give in and whisper to the guy "Listen MOFO, we'll go with your call and after the game we'll see who's right. Winner gets to referee again some time".

That's the point I'm trying to make. You just can't stand out there arguing with the moron for any real appreciable amount of time. If he really, really wants to hang himself, you can't stop him.