Level of Officiating

[Clark Kent]

Originally Posted by iref4him

My question is - do you beleive that you sometimes officiate to the level of your partner(s)?

Absolutely. I, like bbcof83 am typically the young/new guy on the crew and my biggest objective is to just fit in. My objective is to be consistent. The players and coaches can adjust to calls if we are consistent.

That being said, I also don't feel that I need to pass on obvious fouls or make stuff up just to match my partner's play calling. My goal as an individual is to prevent our crew from going into a "lessened" state of officiating. There are calls that I may have to have a whistle on to keep the crew afloat. In short it is a fine line between "saving" the crew and not stepping on partners toes.

Originally Posted by iref4him

What do you when he feel yourself going there?

I try to self talk. I try very hard to make myself aware of the foul counts, time in the game, as well as what our previous calls have been and at a timeout ask my partner(s) what they think. Essentially, I try to have an absolute focus on the game when I feel myself going downward.

[zm1283]

The hardest thing for me is in 3-person when one of your partners is calling things one way, and the other is calling things another way...what do you do? I felt like on one occasion this year that one partner was very tight and one very loose, so I couldn't figure out which way to go as the youngest one on the crew. I would pass on something that the loose one didn't call, then call something similar a few minutes later that the tight one had called earlier in the game. Just very hard to feel like you're consistent when your partners aren't consistent. On the other hand I've had some VERY good games this year where all 2 or 3 of us are on the same page and clicking and things go really smoothly.