Wild and crazy night

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Explain what difference it makes if you do have a 7-0 foul count, please.

So you're ready for the coach's complaint?

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

So you're ready for the coach's complaint?

The next time that I make any call while worrying if a coach is gonna complain about that call will be the first time.

And you might make one coach happy by evening up foul counts, but you're going to piss the other coach off while doing so. Are you ready for that coach's complaints?

I was taught to strive to be consistent and fair from the opening top to the final horn. Deliberately evening up foul counts flies in the face of that.

Jmo.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

The next time that I make any call while worrying if a coach is gonna complain about that call will be the first time.

And you might make one coach happy by evening up foul counts, but you're going to piss the other coach off while doing so. Are you ready for that coach's complaints?

I was taught to strive to be consistent and fair from the opening top to the final horn. Deliberately evening up foul counts flies in the face of that.

Jmo.

First of all, I was searching for a reason to be concerned with the foul count. Not so it can be "fixed" or manipulated, but so I can be prepared to respond to the coach's complaint.

Every time I've been concerned with a lopsided foul count, I stopped for a minute to make sure I wasn't missing something. I wasn't, any time. Sometimes, the fouls just fall that way and there's nothing you can or should do about it.

I had a coach one time answer his only question during his timeout rant about the foul count.

Coach: "The fouls are x to x."
Me:
Coach: "You can't tell me we're fouling that much more than they are."
Me:

After about 35 seconds of his timeout wasted without asking a single question, and therefore me not saying a word while looking him in the eyes; he told me I was giving him a dirty look and not to take that out on his girls. I told him he was reaching, and we were done.

I was the new guy, and he was just looking to see what he could pull. I learned something about myself: I'm not going to stand there for so much as 10 seconds next time without a question.

Live and learn.

[just another ref]

I recently called a GV game where the foul count near the end of the 1st quarter was 7-0. The interesting thing is that the score was tied 17-17.