You Make the Call

[mjbofficial]

Originally Posted by KTexRef

Memo to older guys, help teach younger officials, don't berate them. There is such a shortage of officials as it is, we certainly don't need this type of behavior.

Completely agree. As a new official, I'm trying my best out there would really be turned off to this if one of my fellow officials berated me. Constructive criticism is encouraged, if we are doing something wrong...by all means, tell us. Just remember where you were when you first started.

I've been lucky thus far, this is my first year and I've done about 40 games and everyone I've worked with has been great.

[rainmaker]

Originally Posted by KTexRef

I talked with the younger official and tried to diffuse the situation. I told him that we're human and we will make mistakes and that it's critical to admit those errors right away. The younger official and I continued to talk through the situation different game scenarios where an error like this could have decided a game. I promised him that he would remember tonight for his entire officiating career and that he would likely not make the same error again!

Besides which, it wasn't all that huge of a mistake. Sheez, in the end the correct thing happened, and no one got hurt. At least not from Junior!

[deecee]

lol this R with 6 years of experience knows it all. i like him.

I mean in a blowout with 20 seconds less what a huge error. reporting a 1and1 as a 2 shot foul to the table. Thats not correctible and its just an error, and in this case and scenario a really tiny one.

I remember one older ref that started to go off on me about a year ago like it was my first after he was way off his rocker and i asked him. Right before he started i told him "If for a second you are going to try and justify your screw up to me by spouting off how long you have been working i would suggest you save your breath." he had nothing to say. A guy looses credibility with me when he justifies what he did because hes been working X amount of years. Now if he had said well this one time i had a similar situation come up and ... that is much better than I am right because i have officiated 3,654,567 years.

I still find it hard to imagine anything to berate anyone over in this case -- i would have told him to touch his toes and think about the care bears.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Charge the home coach with a timeout for initiating a correctable error that didn't pan out.
Do you normally blow the whistle and kill the play to talk to a coach?

Originally Posted by rainmaker

....with 20 seconds left, and a blowout game? Not me!

Which part? Charging the timeout or stopping the game to talk to a coach?