Change the call?

[devdog69]

Originally posted by Bart Tyson
here is just a little different take and i know i might get some grief. I trust my partners. If they start toward me to change a call, I'm changing it. It is a matter of mechanics to come to me. If my changing the call is wrong, then its on my partner. I try not to go to my partner in the 1st half. You don't want two corrections in a game. Those of you who have had that happen know what i am talking about. On a side note, I had a HS game recently where I was a lead, shot right in front of me( my primary), def. in front and back of the shooter, I saw the girl in front foul the shooter on the arm just below the wrist, not hard but cause the shot short. Double whistle, Lead and Trail. I yell 11-white, as i start out to report my partner says 32, I stop and said what did you say ( i didn't understand what he was saying) he said the foul is on 32. SO, i report foul on 32. Now i don't think he should have done that because i know i had a foul on 11, however, its possible the obvious foul might have been on 32, I was watching the girl in front. Again, I trust my partners.

Bart, I agree with your outlook on changing the o.b. call, in trying to not do it in the first half. My philosophy is slightly different but very similar. I view it sort of like the red flag for a challenge in NFL football and only give myself one a game and even then only if I am 110% sure that my partner missed it. Friday night, varsity girls game the ball was poked out of bounds by a girl standing in my area but the ball went out on my partners line. I was sure no one else had touched it and he signalled the other direction. I very quickly decided to let it lie, it was in the first quarter of the game, the first of a double-header and I wanted to save my red flag for a more important time in the game if I needed it. Luckily, I never had to use it. This is not to say that I wouldn't do it twice if I had too, but the situation would have to be extraordinary. See my post on how the rest of my evening turned out, titled, Friday night.