Intentional or excessive intentional

[Back In The Saddle]

Two thoughts:

1. Game control. If the contact is significant to warrant consideration for excessive contact and it "turns up the heat" unnecessarily, if there's no good reason for it, if the outcome is already decided, if there's a history going on...I'm calling it intentional to send a clear message.

2. We call lots of fouls where there is clean contact with the ball. The ball is not the only consideration. And if the defender can't make that clean play on the ball without creating excessive contact...it should be called.

[Tio]

Did you ask the Center official for information? A lot of intentional fouls occur on fastbreak plays off of turnovers. In my opinion, the Center will have the best look on whether an upgrade to intentional or flagrant is warranted.

Sometimes, we can have intentional fouls that are legitimate plays on the ball based on excessive contact. If the observer jumped you on this, I would at least consider the merits of what they said.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Tio

Did you ask the Center official for information? A lot of intentional fouls occur on fastbreak plays off of turnovers. In my opinion, the Center will have the best look on whether an upgrade to intentional or flagrant is warranted.

Sometimes, we can have intentional fouls that are legitimate plays on the ball based on excessive contact. If the observer jumped you on this, I would at least consider the merits of what they said.

Jmo but I think that you've got a better chance of getting jumped on by an observer for not making a definitive call as to whether the foul was intentional or not if it was your job to make that decision. That's one judgment that every calling official has to make by himself imo. You can't call a game by committee.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

You can't call a game by committee.

What? Are you saying that you can't just stop the game and conduct a poll?

[Judtech]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

What? Are you saying that you can't just stop the game and conduct a poll?

And the larger the crowd, the larger the sample size and the more accurate the outcome!

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Judtech

And the larger the crowd, the larger the sample size and the more accurate the outcome!

Not true, the self-selection involved in the make up of the crowd means it's not a random sampling; your margin of error would be huge no matter how big your sample.

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Jmo but I think that you've got a better chance of getting jumped on by an observer for not making a definitive call as to whether the foul was intentional or not if it was your job to make that decision. That's one judgment that every calling official has to make by himself imo. You can't call a game by committee.

That's the general position on the NCAA men's side, yet from what I've seen at camps the NCAA women's side is teaching to come together and talk about it before signaling an intentional foul.

I will express no personal opinion on this whatsoever. I'm merely relaying the information.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

That's the general position on the NCAA men's side, yet from what I've seen at camps the NCAA women's side is teaching to come together and talk about it before signaling an intentional foul.

I will express no personal opinion on this whatsoever.

What's your personal opinion?

You already know mine.

[Judtech]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

That's the general position on the NCAA men's side, yet from what I've seen at camps the NCAA women's side is teaching to come together and talk about it before signaling an intentional foul.

I will express no personal opinion on this whatsoever. I'm merely relaying the information.

To clarify some, this is USUALLY done in one of two cases. The first being that a non calling official has a good look at something that the calling official did not see for various reasons. Or the calling official has a suspicion that there was more involved than what they saw and want to get a 'second opinion' prior to reporting the foul.
The rationale given 2 explain that makes some sense. The first being it is better/easier to 'upgrade' a foul than to 'downgrade' a foul. Similar to you cant "uneject' someone. Secondly, it gives the perception that the crew is working together, that eyes were on the play and the calling official has the information they need to come to a proper decision about 'upgrading'. Further, the process is not dissimilar to an official providing additional information about an OB. Official comes in, provides info to calling official, calling official then decides whether or not to change call.
I like it, but thenagain, I am a big fan of the officiating crew having as much information as they can get. This type of foul, like some tech's IMO, is rare enough that having these quick consults warrant the 'one off' type situation being espoused.

[Adam]

The drawback is that it gives the impression that all eyes were on the same players.

Personally, I think it looks better if the X is given immediately rather than after discussion; but maybe that's just me.