Do you start calling tighter?

[ChuckElias]

I don't think you're way off base, but I do think that there are times when we as officials (I can't speak for coaches) realize that the game has started to get away from us. Not through inconsistency, but due to frustration on the part of one team, or due to the lower skill level of the subs that have come in, or whatever. Maybe the intensity level has gone up in the second half and the teams are a little chippier.

Maybe at those times, it doesn't hurt to call a couple quick fouls that maybe weren't fouls in the first half; just to give everybody a chance to slow down. Just my opinion.

chuck