Push-ups

[JRutledge]

Originally posted by zebraman

The men you are trusting are the same ones who let 6 players on the floor recently and have also been seen calling traveling on a throw-in. Just because they made D-1 doesn't make them infallible, nor does it make them off limits to discussion. From what I have seen, sportsmanship is much better on the high school level than it is at college levels. This is one example of things that get "let go" at the college level which would usually be penalized in high school. If you can't distinguish the difference between jumping high-gives and push-ups..... well, that speaks for itself. If after the push-ups, the player then did a little dance on the players stomach, would we still have a "stick up our butt" for calling a T? No wonder you think it's always the officials fault when a T is called.... you wouldn't know an unsportsmanlike act if it bit you on the butt.

Z

We could be talking about HS or middle school officials, they were there, you and I were not. I have always felt that judgement calls are better made by the officials that are doing the game. In my opinion, if I was watching the a game and you were on the floor, who the hell am I to be telling the people around me that I should have called something and I am sitting in the cheap seats? Well, we all were in the cheap seats. We did not earn the right to do that game and I think it is wrong and unprofessional for many who are not here to be making judgements on what is unsportsmanlike, when none of us were there to make that call. If you want to say this is what should have been done, then go to a camp and come here and defend every single situation that happens on your court, by a bunch of people that will never sit in your shoes for one day. I do not think anyone here has earned that right to start talking about what is unsportsmanlike at that level and what is not when you were not there. Easy to look at replay film and see it over and over again and say, "that should have been called."

If this is not the truth, do not ever get mad when when officiate a game or you know someone is officiating and some fellow official is ripping apart ever decision they make. Talking openly about "they missed this" or "they missed that." Or "I cannot believe they didn't called that."

The truth about this board is that the only thing that ties us together is that we claim to be officals. Does not mean we all take the thing we call professionalism to a higher plane. But then again, this is the internet.

Peace