Now repeat after me....

"I am a troll."

Again.....

"I am a troll."

One more time....

"I am a troll."

where did this its not all about me nonsense come from???

i would pay $1.37 to watch OS officiate a basketball game.

Wow...that's about $2.00 more than I would pay!

It's a typical response when someone doesn't have facts to back up their argument. They would rather resort to emotional responses (such as, "It's not about me", "Throwing fellow officials under the bus", "Moron", "Drinking the Kool-Aid", and so on), rather than discussing the specific rules and facts involved.

Is this the longest thread in the history of this Board (w/ the exception, of course, of the annual baseball thread)?

And your point is?

What you really, reallly, reallly, really (help me James Brown), need to do is get over yourself, and stop drinking that kool-aid! I got to find out what's in that kool-aid, because I have never seen officials talk so crazy. You want me to quite officiating because I would call a block here? Because I stand behind my call, you want me to stop officiating? My goodness man, you could not be more into you than this statement. It's all about you! Sad...

Old School Officiating
 

Would you all be jealous of me if I told you I have seen Old School work? It's true, I've witnessed it with my own eyes. The sad part is, that it is actually harder to watch than it is to listen to him talk about it. If you think he is clueless here then you should all see him when he applies all his nonsense. So rest assured, he is not trying to get anyone going when he posts these moronic statements. He truely believes, and applies, what he posts. Sad yes, but atleast he holds to what he believes, right or wrong. But you all need to see it atleast once.

This is what happens when a narcissistic "official" gets ripped a new one by an evaluator and told he's making too much of a show of himself in his games. When he's been disregarding rules to apply his own playing and coaching philosophy, he gets reemed by assigners and evaluators and he gets told in no uncertain terms that he needs to remember the game isn't about him or his opinions. It's about the rules.
Then, since he's so narcissistic, he assumes all officials have the same issue he does. That's called projecting.

Are you serious??? So how big of a mess are his games?

Old School is viewing this thread as I type this post. Well OS, you are absolutely correct, it is not about me, it is about trying to make you a better basketball offical. You are an arrogant jacka$$, who could not officiate his way out of a wet paper bag with a flame thrower. So please stop posting and please stop officiating basketball.

MTD, Sr.

Old School:

Its all about me!! Since when I have I made it about me. You still have not listend to a word I have written or anything anybody else has written. You are so into your misinformed ideas about the rules that you are too arrogant to learn.

MTD, Sr.

This is too good to be true. We're gonna need some proof.

And who are you to make this judgement about me? It's pretty much consistent across the board that most think this call could have gone either way and been okay with it. I am okay with you calling a CHARGE here and I have mention this over and over. However, I believe this is a BLOCK, will always be a block in my book. The reason I say it's all about you is because somewhere down the line, you have made yourself god, king know-it-all, judge and jury, and because I share a different opinion on this play, I should quite officiating. Now please do tell, who elected you to be judge over who should ref and who shouldn't?

Dang-it! It's that damn kool-aid. Stop drinking it and you won't feel like you need to tell everybody what to do, and remember, it's not all about you! Basketball is bigger than me, you and all the other kool-aid drinkers on this forum. It will still be played long after me and you have served our time on this earth. So you really need to get over yourself here and this one call and take life one step at a time, one call at a time.

Good day!

What most have said is that the correct call was a charge; but they'd forgive a ref who made a block call on the spot in real time. What's outrageous is your refusal to admit it would correctly be called a charge, in spite of rules to back it up. What's outrageous is your claim that calling this charge in a big game could impede an official's career.

This may be the best post of the thread...wish someone would have thought of it 17 pages ago....

Does anyone else have a problem with the OS's argument that it is too close to know...I really think that a L in good position with a little depth could have caught B1 with both feet on the floor just before A1 goes airborne...therefore not a guess as has been argued?