Why? Joey? First name basis? Why? Good point. Nothing more corrosive than experience and wisdom. Why? Why?

Tough to understand why some folks on this forum can't differentiate between a fan with an uninformed opinion and an official with an informed opinion. Crawford no doubt deserved what he got, but I've also watched Duncan enough to not appreciate his antics. Dumping on officials who saw the game and faulted Crawford, with or without the suspension, is just stupid, though.

Visit the thread that was locked and see how critical opinions from officials, before the suspension was issued, were responded to.

Dan_ref must be an old guy. :)

Someday you will be too. And if you "still have game" and you still love to ref, you might be singing a different tune.

There are several "older refs" in our HS association as well as the junior college games that I ref who are fantastic officials. They need to stay, not go! Experience is a huge asset.

Joey Crawford's 29 years are a credit to him. He made a mistake but to say that his experience is part of the problem is..... ignorant at best.

I have no idea what who said to whom, but if Tim D was fined 25 grand, how is a double T a bad call?

Joey Crawford is 55 years old. He's still in good shape and doesn't have any more problems keeping up than do younger officials.

Imo, Joey's problem is that he's an official that likes to call a game according to the rules and also doesn't believe in treating the stars any different than the scrubbies. In a league that is solely geared for entertainment and is star based, that just doesn't fly. He's probably not a good fit anymore.

You know at that level that every team has a "book" on every single official. The players and coaches should know what he's like, and if they're smart, they should try to adjust to him rather than vice-versa. Well, unfortunately there's too many knuckleheads in that league that worry more about getting dissed than actually winning. Officiating in the NBA is a hopeless job anymore imo. That's one of the reasons that the league has become basically unwatchable, and their all-star teams are getting the snot beat out of them by the likes of Puerto Rica, Spain and Italy.

After your remarks about the Rutgers' womans team, you're known here as something else. And that "something else" is a heckuva lot worse than a being a fanboy or jock sniffer.

[QUOTE=JoeTheRef]Joe, you just replied from an official's perspective. You <b>are</b> a ref!:) You <b>know</b> that we're all going to make mistakes. You also <b>know</b> that if you want to develop into the best official that you can be, you need to learn from those mistakes. The better officials simply make fewer mistakes than others, and also tend not to repeat their mistakes. Fanboys, and some officials unfortunately, never look at things from that perspective. All they see is a missed or blown call, and it becomes a conspiracy against their favorite team.

Good luck in your officiating career.

Officiating resume, fanboy?:D

joey
 

had to help my wife(I'm not 14)so let me finsih what I was talking about. joey did not make a mistake he went after someone. He made it personal & attacked TD for whatever dumb reason. Since I'm a young guy they try & tell me how to be negative towards people or not correct an mistake they make. Happened this weekend while I was doing a college football scrimmage. Older guy telling me it was DPI & I told in no way in hell it was. During the film review observer gave me a THAT A BOY on a GREAT NO CALL!!!(SEE I REALLY AM AN OFFICIAL)

Whatever.

Thanks for avoiding my questions, reveals a lot about you that has nothing to do with your age, but everything to do with who you are.

You go back and read it and you will see that I am one of the "responders" - but I don't remember anyone wanting to really discuss the call or no-call, just wanting to dump on Joey Crawford - he kicked out the best player and that made the game horrible, he only called those T's to make Cuban happy, yada, yada, yada...once again, discuss calls and situations all we want to, but when you dump on another official like those earlier posts did then you'd better be ready to take it too...

Whointhehell are you trying to kid, fanboy .You've never officiated a game in any sport in your life. Any post that you've made since you came here was made solely to dump on officials.

You're just another troll wandering through the door to see how much crap he can stir up....:rolleyes:

Your thoughts on the Rutgers womens teams were deleted, as well they should have been. Crawl back under your rock. Your kind isn't needed here.