Your very best advice for a new ref

[jeffpea]

1) blow the whistle! blow it LOUD (too many new guys seem to think it's a lollipop) and blow if often (99.9% of HS games don't have enough fouls called - usually because the officials want to get the game over with quickly).

2) watch & listen. it's the only way to learn how to get better.

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by jeffpea

(99.9% of HS games don't have enough fouls called - usually because the officials want to get the game over with quickly).

I'm torn between a sarcastic "I'd like to see the research on that one "

and the more straight-forward:

"Screw you and the high horse you rode in on."

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by jeffpea

1) 99.9% of HS games don't have enough fouls called - usually because the officials want to get the game over with quickly

So...what team do you coach?

[Rich]

Originally Posted by jeffpea

(99.9% of HS games don't have enough fouls called - usually because the officials want to get the game over with quickly)

I think it's the opposite. It's easy to call contact. It's harder to make the right decision on whether or not we had a foul.

90% of the JV games I watch before my varsity game have too many fouls, sometimes by a third or half over what I think should be called.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

90% of the JV games I watch before my varsity game have too many fouls, sometimes by a third or half over what I think should be called.

But are they called both ways?