Crew Integrity

[johnnyrao]

Originally Posted by Smitty

But you're still just guessing about why he came over and what he said, so the leap to "undermining an official's authority" seems overblown to me. Perhaps it was poor timing, perhaps not. I'm only arguing that no one's authority was undermined based on what you know and how you painted it.

Smitty, completely concur with you. In fact, I was always taught that this is exactly the way it should be done. If a non-calling official feels he/she has information about the call, they come to you and tell you what they saw. If you say you saw it differently, they go back and play on. Seems to me like this crew did exaclty that. What I am confused about in the OP is where it says the other official came across and "questioned" the call of the C. Do you know for sure he "questioned" her call, or simply came and said, "Here's what I saw..." and then got what the C called and returned to the game? If anything, from what I read in the OP, the only thing that COULD have been done differently was that the non-calling official could have come over earlier, but he may have delayed since the C was having a conversation with the coach (HTBT on that one).