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[zm1283]

Originally Posted by budjones05

Mr. ZM1983

You have come to the wrong place to criticize officials at the D1 level. And I take offense because one of those officials got me started into officiating in Jr. High and High School. In fact, he gave me most my games in my first and second year. If you come to be bring down officiating, I suggest reading your NFHS officials manuel for the first pages and you will learn what it takes to be a official.

Where did I criticize any particular D1 official? I just gave an opinion that football is the worst of the three major sports.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by zm1283

Where did I criticize any particular D1 official? I just gave an opinion that football is the worst of the three major sports.

He never said you criticized "a" D1 official. Frankly, that would be better than a blanket statement such as yours.

Your insistence that you are right in spite of being shot down pretty easily on the football side is enlightening.

To say any sport is the worst when your perspective of that sport is only as a fan is not very credible.

[zm1283]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

He never said you criticized "a" D1 official. Frankly, that would be better than a blanket statement such as yours.

Your insistence that you are right in spite of being shot down pretty easily on the football side is enlightening.

To say any sport is the worst when your perspective of that sport is only as a fan is not very credible.

I was "shot down"? Others didn't agree with my opinions about calls in the Super Bowl. I guess if that means I was shot down then so be it.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by zm1283

I was "shot down"? Others didn't agree with my opinions about calls in the Super Bowl. I guess if that means I was shot down then so be it.

By shot down, I simply mean they informed you how the calls, while perhaps debatable, were not awful. Who do you think I should give credence to, one or two guys who don't officiate football telling me football officials are the worst of the major sports, or football officials who tell me the calls the first guy bases his opinion on aren't that bad?

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

He never said you criticized "a" D1 official. Frankly, that would be better than a blanket statement such as yours.

Your insistence that you are right in spite of being shot down pretty easily on the football side is enlightening.

To say any sport is the worst when your perspective of that sport is only as a fan is not very credible.

Then he gets on his high horse about Bobby Knight and suggest he is clueless in the sport he officiating. But then goes on rants about a sport he does not officiate.

Peace

[Adam]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Then he gets on his high horse about Bobby Knight and suggest he is clueless in the sport he officiating. But then goes on rants about a sport he does not officiate.

Peace

And the irony completely escapes him.

[budjones05]

Originally Posted by zm1283

Where did I criticize any particular D1 official? I just gave an opinion that football is the worst of the three major sports.

Have you officiated a NFL football game before? Or any level of football either? My opinion is even if you never officiated a sport before, hold your self to a level that doesn't belittle officiating as a whole. We expect this from a fan off the street, but not one of our own.

[zm1283]

Originally Posted by budjones05

Have you officiated a NFL football game before?

No.

Or any level of football either?

Yes. Not a high level but I have done it.

My opinion is even if you never officiated a sport before, hold your self to a level that doesn't belittle officiating as a whole. We expect this from a fan off the street, but not one of our own.

I'm not belittling officiating as a whole, but I guess that's your opinion.

[Welpe]

Originally Posted by zm1283

Yes. Not a high level but I have done it.

At what level?

I'm not belittling officiating as a whole, but I guess that's your opinion.

No, just football officials.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by zm1283

Yes. Not a high level but I have done it.

I was a line judge in high school for our volleyball games. I was also a side judge (or something like that) for soccer while in college.

I've done it, but you won't see me claiming anything about soccer or volleyball officiating; because I don't know nearly enough to do it.

BTW, I'm not particularly proud of my association with metric football.

[fullor30]

Originally Posted by zm1283

Where did I criticize any particular D1 official? I just gave an opinion that football is the worst of the three major sports.

If you said the most difficult to call, you might maintain some credibility.

[zm1283]

Originally Posted by Welpe

At what level?

Youth level. I never claimed to be a great football official, but I have been around it enough and played it at a high enough level to know quite a bit about it.

[Welpe]

Originally Posted by zm1283

I never claimed to be a great football official, but I have been around it enough and played it at a high enough level to know quite a bit about it.

The game maybe. The rules and philosophies? Not so much.

[zm1283]

Originally Posted by Welpe

The game maybe. The rules and philosophies? Not so much.

We've already been over this, but I'll say it again: A lot of the stuff I was talking about wasn't because of rules knowledge or lack thereof.

[Welpe]

Originally Posted by zm1283

We've already been over this, but I'll say it again: A lot of the stuff I was talking about wasn't because of rules knowledge or lack thereof.

Your lack of understanding of what constitutes both holding and pass interference would indicate otherwise.

OK, I'm done tilting at windmills.