Bad Backcourt Call by Partner. What to do?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by just another ref

You can't change a partner's call whether he consents or not. You can give him information and let him change his own call.

Semantics, I think. You certainly can make the change if he agrees. I would prefer I hadn't, but I've done it.

And, for the record, his agreement can sometimes be nothing more than silent acquiescence. In this case, you may get the call right but run the risk of becoming the headlights to your partner's deer.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Semantics, I think. You certainly can make the change if he agrees. I would prefer I hadn't, but I've done it.

Not really. The idea behind letting one of your partners change their own call is credibility. If you do it for him, you just destroyed their credibility.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Not really. The idea behind letting one of your partners change their own call is credibility. If you do it for him, you just destroyed their credibility.

Agreed, and that's the reason I wish I'd done it differently last year. It's the only time I've ever done it. The rest of the game went well, but I kept thinking of how it could have gone wrong at that point.