Verbals out of Limits

[zebraman]

RefDaddy,

I agree with the others that deciding ahead of time what is going to be a "T" doesn't always work. There may be some actions that are automatic though.
A clipboard slammed to the ground by a coach. A coach kicking a bleacher so loud that everyone in the gym hears it.

Rut,

It is not just how we make calls, we will be judged by the way we deal with the people in the game.

Agreed

Officiating is much more a people business than it is what the rules are and how we apply them.

No, actually it's both. If you don't know the rules and how to apply them, your people skills won't help you B.S. your way through.

All the good officials keep making that point over and over again.

Actually, good officials probably make that point once. Sub-par, inferior officials keep bringing it up over and over and over and over.

Z