Welmer out...

[Rich]

Originally Posted by tomegun

Whenever you go to a camp, the clinicians frequently talk about how they don't know if they could make it with the competition the way it is now. Officials are trained at a level higher than it used to be and the training is aimed at getting plays right NOT tugging on pants or squating when you blow the whistle.

I went to the WI/Penn State game yesterday. Valentine and Hightower were on the game. It was a very physical game, IMO. I just don't see how one can look at a tape and definitively say "this is a foul" or "this isn't a foul." While they can try to put as much science (via absolutes) into the game as they want, there's still a significant art in determining advantage/disadvantage on the fly. It's why one game, IMO, feels tightly called and another feels less so -- sometimes in the same conference.

How do we determine what's right? Welmer lets something go and someone watching tape subjectively decides that it should've been a foul? Please. Why wouldn't Welmer's subjective opinion be worth just as much -- he works the most games, after all.

It's tough, I know. How do you keep basketball a contact but not collision game and still have good flow and not blow the whistle every 8 seconds?