Situation at camp...

[mbyron]

Sounds like it was all good up to the officials' meeting. That should have gone like this:

YOU: We shouldn't be shooting, since the shooter wasn't fouled. Right?
L: Oh, uh, I guess not.

If your L insists that the shooter was fouled, try one more time: "you weren't looking at the shooter, but called a foul on the rebound that caused all the bodies in the lane, right?"

If he's going to pass up 2 opportunities to get it right, at that point you have to let him hoist himself on his petard. But the observers can't "kill the crew" at that point.

If they did criticize the crew, perhaps it was for not being more pro-active in preventing the error. You did meet to discuss the call, after all -- what's the point of that if you're not going to get it right?