Philosophy

[tomegun]

Originally Posted by rainmaker

Switch on every foul? If you're lead at one end, and call a foul, you'll end up as lead at the other end so you can call the same play the same way. Same with trail. It's not that difficult.

Oh, so when you officiate these plays happen back to back right after you switch? That must work out nice for you. I don't work games where the players are so kind as to have similar plays back to back so we can make the same call every time. Where does the calling official go when it is a three man game? Are you sure it isn't that difficult? Think about it and tell me again how you can make sure the same official is at lead for these calls.

[rainmaker]

Originally Posted by tomegun

Oh, so when you officiate these plays happen back to back right after you switch? That must work out nice for you. I don't work games where the players are so kind as to have similar plays back to back so we can make the same call every time. Where does the calling official go when it is a three man game? Are you sure it isn't that difficult? Think about it and tell me again how you can make sure the same official is at lead for these calls.

I don't work any 3-whistle, so I can't answer that part. No it doesn't always work out nicely like that, but sometimes it does. It's not a panacea to totally even out the calling. It's just one more possible way to reduce the number of problems that we can create for ourselves. Sometimes my partner and I can agree, sometimes the same person can be in place to call the same thing at both ends.

Occasionally, we have a problem when each partner refuses to adjust their calls. When that happens, and I think that's what the question in the oP was about, I try to adjust a little, and I try to make it so that one of us is getting the same calls at both ends. It's not the final answer, but it's one more tool.

The tone of your responses seems a little snippy. What's the issue?

[tomegun]

Originally Posted by rainmaker

The tone of your responses seems a little snippy. What's the issue?

That is part of the problem with typing instead of talking, I thought your previous post was a little snippy. To say it isn't that difficult isn't really accurate when you have to follow it up with many "ifs." In fact, it wouldn't be that difficult if these plays happened back to back and we all worked two man. Since we know, and knew when you made your original post, that it isn't that cut and dry, your reply was a little snippy. As always, please don't mistake my responses as snippy. I'm sorry, but I can be intense about things.

[rainmaker]

Originally Posted by tomegun

That is part of the problem with typing instead of talking, I thought your previous post was a little snippy. As always, please don't mistake my responses as snippy. I'm sorry, but I can be intense about things.

Okay, I see your point. If I remember correctly, you and I have had this problem before.

You know I also think that you do a lot higher level of ball that Rita and I are talking about. in JH, and Frsh and JV it often happens that the same thing will happen at both ends over and over. Less true in varsity, probably even less in college.

And that reminds me of another little coping mechanism to deal with it when P and I aren't on the same page. If a coach complains, "Call it both ways!", I have said a few times, "Coach those two plays were clearly not the same situation." That can be sort of true on almost any two situations, but you can't say it too often.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by rainmaker

The tone of your responses seems a little snippy.

Could you please find another word to use instead of that one?

Shudder.......