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Junker · #1 (**permalink**) Thu Oct 18, 2007, 06:44pm

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Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle

Congrats! Don't worry, your partner will be there. However, to ease your mind... If your partner does not contact you at least 24 hours before the game, call him. That way you'll know for sure he's coming.

Another thing my crew does, and I do for games I work outside of my crew is contact the schools to confirm start times, etc. the week of the game. Email works great, but taking time to call is a nice, personal touch in my opinion. I haven't been around for a while so I'm just adding an opinion to everything, whether it is valid or not.

Junker · #2 (**permalink**) Thu Oct 18, 2007, 06:45pm

Oh yeah, and congratulations!

Mark Padgett · #3 (**permalink**) Thu Oct 18, 2007, 06:51pm

If you really, really want to go that extra mile - try to have someone video your first few games. Even if you only get to review the tapes by yourself and not with an experienced official to give you feedback, you'll still learn a ton.

Oh yeah - welcome to the corps. Semper T.

Coltdoggs · #4 (**permalink**) Thu Oct 18, 2007, 07:22pm

Welcome to the game!

What you said happened to me in my first year...I was doing an AAU tourney at a local HS and had been doing little pee-wees up to that day...Always taller than the players.......This day when my P didn't show up, it was 8th grade game and one of the kids was about a 6'-9" kid named Greg Oden!!

Partner showed up about 4 minutes in and I survived!

Mark Padgett · #5 (**permalink**) Fri Oct 19, 2007, 10:38am

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Originally Posted by Coltdoggs

it was 8th grade game and one of the kids was about a 6'-9" kid named Greg Oden!!

So how did his knees look?