Tomegun, one would need to actually be an official before one could learn to become a better official. The preponderance of evidence here suggests that prerequisite has not yet been met.

Didn't read any further, but that was a poor job of managing the game by the R. If he sees 6 on the floor, he holds the game and gets one player off.

How is that different than what was actually done?

He admitted he didn't read any further. Therefore, he doesn't realize how brilliantly the R handled the situation.

What does this mean exactly? Oh, I get it. "Thinking outside the box" is good. "Traditional types" is bad. Wouldn't want to follow those old, traditional rules and mechanics or anything. Much better to think outside the box, right?

Huh?

Ok, please answer these questions (they might look familiar):

Do you actually referee?
What levels do you currently work?
Do you actually own any rule books or manuals, and what level are they?

<font size =-2>Well, crap...I'm not even following my own advice, am I?</font size>

Dollars to a donut that Old School is the Bizarro World alter ego of Jurassic and he sits at his computer typing emails back-and-forth to himself. :D

Did somebody just say something?:confused:

Must be an echo...or somebody on my <b>Ignore</b> list. :D

That's for me to know and you to find out.

Happy Holidays...

Gee, being an assigner also, shouldn't you be trying to train your college officials better?

Yea, yea, I know. Sheesh, I can't even take my own advice.

Sorry, he just answered, so I'm going back in.

Have you seen the commercial with the football player pushing the swing for all the little kids, and they are all sitting there waiting for him to come to them, but the row of kids goes on and on for as long as you can see. That's what it likes trying to train all the officials that needs help. I got to also admit, officials, grown men, are the hardest individuals in the world to train.

Also, how do you train an official who's status is higher than yours?

I'm guessing you run into this problem a lot.

Sigh......

Oh Ye of Little Faith.......

Mr. Old School has already stated his qualifications:

1) He has been an official since 1990. For the first 10 years of his career, he <b>never</b> opened a rulebook. Nope, not once. Didn't need no silly ol' rule books.
http://forum.officiating.com/showthr...533#post359533

2) Then around the year 2000, he had an ephinany and the sky was the limit after that. He got introduced to Mr. RuleBook and his career skyrocketed. Within about four(4)(IV) years, Mr. Old School had not only become a <b>college</b> official, he was doing college <b>playoff</b> games. Hello, March Madness. Mr. Old School is here!
http://forum.officiating.com/showthr...831#post358831

3) And don't forget, he has also become an assignor in his spare time also.
http://forum.officiating.com/showthr...596#post358596

And, on McGriffs, he has also mentioned his pro basketball officiating career several times too. He's probably just been a little modest since he came over here, but I'm sure that he'll get to it eventually.

So....Mr. Skeptical, don't you think that you owe Mr. Old School a <b>BIG</b> apology for doubting him?

Actually, I was talking about <b>you</b>. Don't take that personally though.

Naw, on second thought, go ahead and take it personally.

Hmmmmm, interesting theory.

Did you notice that Mr. Old School showed up just after Chuck Elias left? And did you also notice the remarkable similarities in grammar, diction and spelling between O.S. and C.E.'s posts? And their knowledge levels are fairly equal too? Kinda makes you wonder, doesn't it? I'd bet that Old School <b>has</b> to be a BoSox fan too.