Officials and Development

[TheOracle]

See, that's the funny part. Because neither of us is right or wrong. What you and the other two guys advocate is correct by the rule book. So is my philosophy. All my post said was to think about those things and make up your own minds. I can never argue about whether a T is correct. But I can say that newer officials make a lot of judgment mistakes, and defensive officials never realize how many judgment mistakes they really do make. When you penalize reactions for your own mistakes, is that good for anyone? What works for some doesn't work for all.

[26 Year Gap]

I can name that Old School in 10 posts.

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap

I can name that Old School in 10 posts.

No way. This guy is actually literate enough to use caps in the right places and spell all his words correctly. I disagree with a couple of his posts, but at least I understand them.

If I had to guess, I would say that he's a coach or former coach who remembers things from the coach's side. (They're more reasonable as you get to higher levels, you can always avoid the T, etc.)

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

If I had to guess, I would say that he's a coach or former coach who remembers things from the coach's side. (They're more reasonable as you get to higher levels, you can always avoid the T, etc.)

Naw, he's a lawyer. They're trained to be wishy-washy weasels.

[TheOracle]

Yeah, the lawyer did a little research. Looks to me like University of Arizona and ASU have a grand total of zero technical fouls in their games this year for themselves or their opponents. Despite the point of emphasis, top officials will not be throwing out T's very often. It's a last resort.

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by TheOracle

Yeah, the lawyer did a little research. Looks to me like University of Arizona and ASU have a grand total of zero technical fouls in their games this year for themselves or their opponents. Despite the point of emphasis, top officials will not be throwing out T's very often. It's a last resort.

Yeah, google's pretty easy to use.

In fact I used it for about 5 minutes to come up with this list of officials with a pair of balls.

http://media.www.dailyorange.com/med...-3127217.shtml
http://www.niagara-gazette.com/sport...337225225.html
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=273130008
http://www.madison.com/tct/sports/260180
http://www.morningsun.net/stories/11...21320574.shtml
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...ritethru.0839/
http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/recap?gid=200711120343
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h...BlYcgD8STSVLG0

[dan74]

Well, another 'T' last night:

JV girls. Home team is getting trounced early in the game. With me as the trail in two person, home team's coach announces, although not real loudly, "that's a travel." With a couple minutes to go before the half, the home team coach again announces, "that's a travel," which again wasn't real loud. The player who the coach thought had traveled then picked up her dribble and quite obviously drug her pivot foot trying to distance herself from the defender. I then called traveling.

Home team coach responds, "that's a make up call for the ones you guys missed. That's three for them and one for us." I turned and told the coach that was enough and that he needed to coach his team and let us officiate.

Within a minute after starting the second half, the home team's coach announced, "that's a carry." I hit my whistle and administered the T.

Here's the deal: I didn't try to immediately analyze whether the coach had good reason to question our calls or non-calls, sorry Oracle. I simply issued a "T," and didn't sweat it afterward, as many have suggested.

With that said, however, I will keep working on my game management skills, or lack thereof.