Traveling - My Call or Not?

[rainmaker]

Originally posted by Paul LeBoutillier
This was kind of a unique situation. He had already impuined his own reputation. I spoke about it to my Assignor and was told that this 1st year ref won't be renewed for next season. He was a good kid, but he didn't make ONE SINGLE call in the two games I did with him. I HAD to do something. I'm kinda curious what you other guys would've done.

I can tell you that as the newbie, with not nearly enough experience, I had a couple of partners who called too much of my stuff, but there were also a few who were too rigid about not bailing me out. I have had two times when my partner told the coach, "I'll talk to her about that" or "Julie, you can't call that that way. We're going with a blue ball." That's absolutely unforgivable. But there is an extreme that's too far the other direction -- not calling anything that I miss. I think the best is to pick up the very worst stuff, that the partner misses, but ALWAYS defend the partner to the coach, such as, "Coach, the player had his back turned and my partner couldn't see the foul." "Coach, I could see that he was watching that post player"